She was an officially appointed Disney legend. Now US dance star Marge Champion has died in Los Angeles at the age of 101.
US star Marge Champion (1919-2020) was one of Hollywood's leading dancers and choreographers in the 1940s and 1950s and served as the model for Disney's animated film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937). Now she died in Los Angeles on Wednesday at the age of 101. The New York star dance teacher Pierre Dulaine (76) confirmed the "The Hollywood Reporter".
In 1975 she received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography for "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom". In 2007 she was officially named "Disney Legend". Since 2009 there has been a star dedicated to her on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood. In 2009 she was inducted into the National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame. And in 2013 she received the Douglas Watt Lifetime Achievement Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Fred and Adele Astaire Awards. She was last seen as an actress in "Fame – Der Weg zum Ruhm" (1982).
A family of artists
On September 2nd, Marjorie Celeste Belcher, as Marge Champion was born, celebrated her 101st birthday. The artist was married three times. Her third and last husband was the director Boris Sagal (1923-1981), whom she married in 1977. He died in 1981 after a set accident during the production of the ABC miniseries "World War III". She got her last name from her second husband, US star Gower Champion (1919-1980). They were married from 1947 to 1973.
Marge Champion has two sons, including producer and director Gregg Champion (63, "The Magnificent Seven") and a stepdaughter, actress Katey Sagal (66, "A Terribly Nice Family").