Marge Champion, who served as the real-life model for Snow White, then teamed with her husband and dance partner, Gower Champion, for Broadway musicals, television shows and movies, has died
Three for the ShowMarge's father was famed Hollywood dance and ballet teacher Ernest Belcher. He was friends with Walt Disney, and the all-male animation team working onin order to make their heroine move more realistically."None of them had been a young girl or knew how a dress would do this or that or the other thing," shein a 1998 interview with the Archive of American Television."Most of the animators [before then] took their characters … out of themselves.
Marge even danced for them as the dwarf Dopey, she recalled. She also served as a Disney model for the Blue Fairy inChampion was a student of her father's , and he and Marge were married from 1947 until their divorce in 1973. He died in 1980 at age 61. Marjorie Celeste Belcher was born on Sept. 2, 1919, in a home on Orange Drive in Hollywood. Her father founded the Celeste School of Dance (he taught the likes of
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