Rosemary Clooney dancing using a beginning (uncredited) George Chakiris throughout " White Christmas " (1954).
Here ersus an innovative method to observe White Christmas on American Movie Classics 8 p.m. and also 10:45 p.m. for dinner and also Wednesday: Watch to get glimpses with dancer George Chakiris, the particular Norwood local whose uncredited role while in the film launched his or her video career.
That vertisements precisely what I would when I watched White Christmas for the significant tv screen throughout Springdale Saturday morning, understand Chakiris could well be coming home to be able to Norwood on Friday for before considering that grow older 4. The Oscar-winner (for West Side Story ) will tour his the child years home as well as show up at some sort of ceremony at Norwood Middle School, events structured by means of the Rosemary Clooney House museum folks, seeing that Chakiris became his significant present business bust throughout White Christmas vistas having Rosemary Clooney along with Norwood native Vera-Ellen (Rohe).
Bernardo with "West Side Story" (1961)
You might supposed to be about his or her getaway in order to Norwood, his / her spouse and children joints here, and visit towards the Rosemary Clooney House 3-6 p.m. Saturday.
Chakiris, regarding Greek descent, was created in Norwood on Sept. 16, 1932 (not 1934, because shown in the IMDB ). His loved ones relocated that will Arizona unsurprisingly any time he / she has been 4, following a wonderful innundate inside January 1937. His family played a sugar store/deli/beer garden during 1925 Sherman Avenue, for the nook having Alison Avenue, surrounding the midsection institution (which was the graduation around 1937, when Vera-Ellen Rohe has been the drum majorette.).
He didn capital t know Vera-Ellen also ended up being from Norwood after they filmed White Christmas throughout 1954. I could possibly location him or her while a chorus dancer around the woman's Mandy number, and this individual azines a lot easier to discover as you of the some gentlemen dancing together with Rosemary in your girlfriend Love, You Didn t Do Right By Me nightclub number. The photo atop this blog associated with Rosemary on this lovely mysterious dancer drew a great deal enthusiast postal mail that Paramount Picture signed Chakiris into a post paid and that started his career. I like our good old photo files!
He vertisements most common while Bernardo, the Sharks chief in West Side Story (1961), to get which in turn he received that Academy Award with regard to very best assisting actor or actress around 1962. That was one particular with eight Oscars for that film. You is able to see them below. Did I mention which I adore our previous image files?
"West Side Story" personalities George Chakiris (left), Rita Moreno and also Russ Tamblyn final month with Hollywood.
Chakiris will probably be here along with actress/former Miss America Lee Meriwether, exactly who appeared to be some sort of friend connected with Vera-Ellen (she passed away in 19881) including a friend involving past Miss America Heather French Henry, that operates this Rosemary Clooney House museum. You could learn much more in regards to the Chakiris household in Norwood out of George s mother verts book around the .
George Chakiris with the 1962 Academy Awards
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