Marge Champion(1919-2020)

Actress
Additional Crew
Choreography

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Never Stand Still (2012)

One of the great dancer and choreographers in both movies and stage, Marge Champion was best known as the former wife of Gower Champion, when they worked together as a highly successfully dancing team in the MGM musical years. After retiring from movies, Champion worked as a dance teacher and as a choreographer in New York.

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Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 3 wins & 1 nomination total

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Known for

The Party

7.4

Rosalind Dunphy

1968

Show Boat

6.8

Ellie May Shipley

1951

Lovely to Look At

6.2

Clarisse

1952

Give a Girl a Break

6.3

Madelyn Corlane

1953

Credits

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Actress

Bright Young Things
6.5
- Mme. Ashby (uncredited)
- 2003
Fame
7.1
TV Series
- Ann Carlton
- 1982
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
6.3
- Mrs. Bester
- 1970
NET Playhouse
6.6
TV Series
- 1968
The Swimmer
7.6
- Peggy Forsburgh
- 1968
The Party
7.4
- Rosalind Dunphy
- 1968
General Electric Theater
6.8
TV Series
- Kathleen Magee
- Maude Applegate
- 1956–1957
Screen Directors Playhouse
7.2
TV Series
- Claire Gregory
- 1956
Shower of Stars
7.2
TV Series
- 1956
Front Row Center
7.0
TV Series
- 1955
Three for the Show
6.1
- Gwen Howard
- 1955
Jupiter's Darling
5.7
- Meta
- 1955
Lux Video Theatre
7.3
TV Series
- Millie
- 1953
Give a Girl a Break
6.3
- Madelyn Corlane
- 1953
Everything I Have Is Yours
5.7
- Pamela Hubbard
- 1952

Additional Crew

Great Performances: Dance in America
7.3
TV Series
- consultant
- 1987
I Do! I Do!
6.9
TV Movie
- director: stage version
- 1983
Masada
7.8
TV Mini Series
- dialogue coach (as Marge Champion Sagal)
- 1981
When the Circus Came to Town
6.7
TV Movie
- dialogue coach (as Marge Champion Sagal)
- 1981
The Diary of Anne Frank
6.7
TV Movie
- dialogue coach
- 1980
The Awakening Land
8.3
TV Mini Series
- dialogue supervisor
- 1978
Fantasia
7.7
- movement model (uncredited)
- 1940
Pinocchio
7.4
- model: "The Blue Fairy" (uncredited)
- 1940
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
7.6
- performance model: "Snow White" (uncredited)
- 1937
The Goddess of Spring
6.6
Short
- movement model: Persephone (uncredited)
- 1934

Choreography

I Do! I Do!
6.9
TV Movie
- choreographer: stage version
- 1983
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
7.3
- choreographer
- 1981
When the Circus Came to Town
6.7
TV Movie
- choreographer (as Marge Champion Sagal)
- 1981
Ike: The War Years
7.0
TV Mini Series
- choreographer: UK
- 1979
The Awakening Land
8.3
TV Mini Series
- choreographer
- 1978
The Day of the Locust
6.9
- dance supervisor
- 1975
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom
7.3
TV Movie
- choreographer
- 1975
Delinquent Parents
5.1
- dance director (as Marjorie Bell)
- 1938

Videos9

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Carol Channing: Larger Than Life

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Carol Channing: Larger Than Life

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Carol Channing: Larger Than Life

Personal details

Alternative names
- Marjorie Bell
Height
- 5′ 2″ (1.57 m)
Born
- September 2, 1919
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Died
- October 21, 2020
- Los Angeles, California, USA(undisclosed)
Spouses
Children
Parents
Relatives
Other works
Stage: Appeared in "Three for Tonight" on Broadway, with Gower Champion and Harry Belafonte. Musical.
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Did you know

Trivia
Stepmother of Katey Sagal, Joey Sagal, Jean Sagal and Liz Sagal.

Quotes
In those days - it seems impossible now - nice girls didn't go to bed with people before they were married. I had been brought up by my British father. You just didn't do that. You did not sleep with them or live with them.