When Gene Kelly asked what she'd like engraved on her gravestone, Cyd Charisse replied ... she was 12 and on holiday in Los Angeles, her parents enrolled her in a Hollywood ballet school.

Cyd Charisse ... During a family vacation in Los Angeles when she was 12, her parents enrolled her in ballet classes at a school in Hollywood. One of her teachers was Nico Charisse.

Ms. Charisse was born Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas. Her older brother nicknamed her Sid, a variation on Sis. In Hollywood, she changed the spelling to Cyd. During a family vacation in ...

Cyd Charisse ... During a family vacation in Los Angeles when she was 12, her parents enrolled her in ballet classes at a school in Hollywood. One of her teachers was Nico Charisse.

Cyd Charisse is on top form in the musical ... When she was 12 and on holiday in Los Angeles, her parents enrolled her in a ballet school in Hollywood. A year later, aged 13, she joined the ...

Cyd Charisse danced with Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain Cyd Charisse danced with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly in some of Hollywood's finest musicals - The Band Wagon and Silk Stockings with Astaire, ...

Born March 8 1921 at Amarillo, Texas, Cyd Charisse was a jeweller's daughter deemed so underweight that the family doctor advised her to take up dancing at the age of eight to strengthen her muscles.

Cyd Charisse ... She began dance lessons at age 8. The family moved to Hollywood, where, at 18, she married her ballet instructor, Nico Charisse. (The marriage ended in divorce.) ...

Cyd Charisse danced with Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain Cyd Charisse danced with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly in some of Hollywood's finest musicals - The Band Wagon and Silk Stockings with ...