{"id":580,"date":"2008-06-17T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=580"},"modified":"2020-01-08T08:16:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T13:16:02","slug":"breaking-dancer-cyd-charisse-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/17\/breaking-dancer-cyd-charisse-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Dancer Cyd Charisse Has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyd Charisse, the dancer known for her long, athletic legs, has passed away earlier today. She was 86.<\/p>\n<p>One of the great dancers from Hollywood&#8217;s Golden Age, Charisse starred in numerous musicals at MGM Studios and is perhaps best remembered for her work with Gene Kelly in <strong>Singin&#8217; In The Rain<\/strong> (1952) and <strong>Brigadoon<\/strong> (1954) and Fred Astaire in <strong>The Band Wagon<\/strong> (1953) and <strong>Silk Stockings <\/strong>(1957). Kelly, impressed with her talent, often stated that he felt that the management of the studio never knew how to properly showcase the dancer to the best of her abilities.<\/p>\n<p>Below is Charisse&#8217;s memorable appearance with Gene Kelly in <strong>Singin&#8217; In The Rain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7YWBOfsXsDA&amp;hl=en\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7YWBOfsXsDA&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Via <em><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161116130803\/http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/ondeadline\/index\/\">USA Today<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Cyd Charisse, the dancer known for her long, athletic legs, has passed away earlier today. She was 86. One of the great dancers from Hollywood&#8217;s Golden Age, Charisse starred in numerous musicals at MGM Studios <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/17\/breaking-dancer-cyd-charisse-has-died\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Dancer Cyd Charisse Has Died\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[59],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-obituary"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}