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Gwen Verdon is a Actor and Choreographer American born on 13 january 1925 at Culver City (USA)

Gwen Verdon

Gwen Verdon
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Birth name Gwyneth Evelyn Verdon
Nationality USA
Birth 13 january 1925 at Culver City (USA)
Death 18 october 2000 (at 75 years) at Woodstock (USA)
Awards National Medal of Arts

Gwenyth Evelyn “Gwen” Verdon (January 13, 1925 – October 18, 2000) was an American actress and dancer who won four Tony awards for her musical comedy performances and served as uncredited choreographers assistant and specialty dance coach for both theater and film. With flaming red hair and a quaver in her voice, Verdon was a critically acclaimed performer on Broadway in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970's. Having originated many roles in musicals she is also strongly identified with her second husband, director–choreographer Bob Fosse, remembered as the dancer–collaborator–muse for whom he choreographed much of his work and as the guardian of his legacy after his death.

Biography

Verdon had two husbands, tabloid reporter James Henaghan (married 1942, divorced 1947) and Bob Fosse (married 1960, his death 1987). She and Henaghan had one son, Jim Henaghan (born 1943); she and Fosse had a daughter, Nicole Fosse (born 1963).
Fosse's extramarital affairs put a strain on their marriage and by 1971 they were separated. They never divorced. She held him in her arms as he suffered a fatal heart attack on the sidewalk outside the Washington theatre where Sweet Charity was being revived.

She was a cat fancier, and had up to six cats at one time, with names such as "Feets Fosse", "Junie Moon", and "Tidbits Tumbler Fosse".

Verdon died in her sleep in 2000 of a heart attack at the home of her daughter, Nicole, in Woodstock, Vermont, at the age of 75. At 8 p.m. on the night she died, all marquee lights on Broadway were dimmed in a tribute to the actress. Her remains were cremated.

Best films

All That Jazz (1979)
(Actress)

Usually with

Bob Fosse
Bob Fosse
(6 films)
Richard Sale
Richard Sale
(2 films)
Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Gwen Verdon (32 films)

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Actress

Bruno
Bruno (2000)
, 1h48
Directed by Shirley MacLaine
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Alex D. Linz, Shirley MacLaine, Gary Sinise, Kathy Bates, Gwen Verdon, Kiami Davael
Roles Mrs. Drago
Rating60% 3.005353.005353.005353.005353.00535
Bruno Battaglia (Alex D. Linz) is a young boy attending an American Roman Catholic school. Bruno's estranged father Dino (Gary Sinise), a police officer, left the family long ago and Bruno lives with his mother Angela (Stacey Halprin). Angela is overweight and dresses flamboyantly in outfits that she designs and makes herself, standing out in stark contrast to the rest of their conservative Italian American neighborhood.
Walking Across Egypt, 1h40
Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Ellen Burstyn, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Mark Hamill, Pat Corley, Edward Herrmann, Dana Ivey
Roles Alora
Rating71% 3.585513.585513.585513.585513.58551
The film follows the life of Mattie Rigsbee (Ellen Burstyn), an elderly woman who believes in strong religious convictions. The film explores the lonely qualities of life for senior citizens after their children leave as adults. Judge Reinhold and Gail O'Grady play Mattie's children who live in a deep southern town.
Marvin's Room, 1h38
Directed by Jerry Zaks
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Théâtre, Films about cancer, Films based on plays
Actors Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Hume Cronyn, Gwen Verdon
Roles Ruth Wakefield
Rating66% 3.34983.34983.34983.34983.3498
A man who had a stroke 17 years ago (Hume Cronyn) is left incapacitated and bed-ridden. He has been cared for by his daughter Bessie (Diane Keaton) in their Florida home, and totally ignored by his other daughter, Lee (Meryl Streep), who moved to Ohio with her husband 20 years ago and has never contacted her family. Now, however, Bessie's doctor has informed her that she has leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant and she turns to her sister for help. Lee, in turn, turns to her son Hank (Leonardo DiCaprio), who has been committed to a mental institution for setting fire to his mother's house. When Lee finds that she may have to take over her father's care, she at first begins shopping around for nursing homes. Eventually, however, the once-estranged family grows close.
In Cold Blood (miniseries), 4h
Directed by Jonathan Kaplan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Anthony Edwards, Eric Roberts, Sam Neill, Kevin Tighe, Leo Rossi, Stella Stevens
Roles Sadie
Rating60% 3.0395953.0395953.0395953.0395953.039595
At the end of the 1950s, in a more innocent America, a brutal, meaningless slaying of a Midwestern family horrifies the nation. While in prison, Dick Hickock, 28, hears a cellmate's story about $10,000 in cash kept in a home safe by a prosperous rancher. When he's paroled, Dick persuades ex-con Perry Smith, 31, to join him in going after the stash.
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Actors Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland, Cicely Tyson, Anne Bancroft, Blythe Danner, E. G. Marshall
Roles Etta Pell
Rating69% 3.488363.488363.488363.488363.48836
On her 100th birthday, Lucy Honicut Marsden recalls her life as a civil war veteran's 14-year-old bride.
Alice
Alice (1990)
, 1h42
Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Christmas films
Actors Mia Farrow, Alec Baldwin, Joe Mantegna, William Hurt, Rachel Miner, Blythe Danner
Roles Alice's Mother
Rating65% 3.2979753.2979753.2979753.2979753.297975
Alice Tate is an upper-class New York housewife, who spends her days shopping, getting beauty treatments, and gossiping with her friends. She has been married to wealthy Doug for fifteen years, and they have two children, who are being raised by a nanny.
Cocoon: The Return, 1h56
Directed by Daniel Petrie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Charles Lampkin, Jack Gilford, Maureen Stapleton
Roles Bess McCarthy
Rating54% 2.72972.72972.72972.72972.7297
Five years after they left, the Antareans return to Earth to rescue the cocoons that were left behind. Before they can be retrieved, one of the cocoons is discovered by a science research team and taken to a secure laboratory for testing. The aliens and their human allies must find a way to retrieve the cocoon in time for their rendezvous with the rescue ship, while the humans travelling with them must decide whether to return to Antarea or stay on Earth and become mortal again.
Nadine
Nadine (1987)
, 1h20
Directed by Robert Benton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Rip Torn, Gwen Verdon, Glenne Headly, Jerry Stiller
Roles Vera
Rating55% 2.750192.750192.750192.750192.75019
L'action se déroule en 1954 à Austin (Texas). Alors qu'elle se rend chez un photographe pour récupérer des photos de charme dont elle souhaite se débarrasser, Nadine est témoin de son meurtre. Paniquée, elle s'enfuit en emportant avec elle la pochette contenant ses photos, mais celle-ci contient en réalité les plans secrets d'une autoroute. Le propriétaire des plans n'est autre que Buford Pope, un truand prêt à tout pour les récupérer. Nadine se rapproche de Vernon, son mari avec qui elle est en instance de divorce, pour qu'il l'aide à récupérer ses photos, sans oser lui annoncer qu'elle est enceinte de lui...
Cocoon
Cocoon (1985)
, 1h53
Directed by Ron Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Vieillesse, Films based on science fiction novels, Comedy science fiction films, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films set in Atlantis
Actors Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg
Roles Bess McCarthy
Rating66% 3.349223.349223.349223.349223.34922
About 10,000 years ago, peaceful aliens from the planet Antarea set up an outpost on the planet Earth, on an island later known to mankind as Atlantis. When Atlantis sank, twenty aliens were left behind, kept alive in large rock-like cocoons at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Now a group of Antareans have returned to Earth to collect them. Disguising themselves as humans, they rent a house with a swimming pool, and charge the water with "life force" to give the cocooned Antareans energy to survive the trip home. They charter a boat from a local captain named Jack (Steve Guttenberg) who helps them retrieve the cocoons. Jack likes Kitty (Tahnee Welch), a beautiful woman from the team who chartered his boat. When he spies on her while she undresses in her cabin, Jack is shocked when he discovers she is an alien. After the aliens reveal themselves to him and explain what's going on, he decides to help them.
The Cotton Club, 2h7
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Mafia films, Films about music and musicians, Films about racism, Jazz films, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee, Bob Hoskins, James Remar
Roles Tish Dwyer
Rating64% 3.2497953.2497953.2497953.2497953.249795
A musician named Dixie Dwyer begins working with mobsters to advance his career but falls in love with the girlfriend of gangland kingpin Dutch Schultz.
Legs
Legs (1983)
, 2h
Directed by Jerrold Freedman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Shanna Reed, Deborah Geffner, Maureen Teefy, Gwen Verdon, David Marshall Grant, John Heard
Roles Maureen Comly
Rating63% 3.1971453.1971453.1971453.1971453.197145
The film follows three women, Lisa (Shanna Reed), Terry (Deborah Geffner), and Melissa (Maureen Teefy), who are auditioning in front of chroegrapher Maureen Comly (Gwen Verdon) hoping to fill the one open spot in the chorus line of the famous US precision dance company, The Radio City Music Hall Rockettes.
Creepshow
Creepshow (1982)
, 2h
Directed by George A. Romero
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Natural horror films, Ghost films, Zombie films
Actors Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Ted Danson, Leslie Nielsen, Tom Savini
Roles Lenora Castonmeyer
Rating68% 3.400983.400983.400983.400983.40098
A young boy named Billy gets yelled at and slapped by his father, Stan, for reading a horror comic titled Creepshow. Stan reminds his wife that he had to be hard on Billy because he does not want their son to be reading such "crap". As Billy sits upstairs cursing his father with hopes of him rotting in Hell, he hears a sound at the window, which turns out to be a ghostly apparition in the form of The Creep from the comic book, beckoning him to come closer.
All That Jazz, 2h
Directed by Bob Fosse
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Films about angels, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking, Max Wright, Gwen Verdon
Rating77% 3.89743.89743.89743.89743.8974
Joe Gideon is a theater director and choreographer trying to balance work on his latest Broadway musical with editing a Hollywood film he has directed. He is a workaholic who chain-smokes cigarettes, and without a daily dose of Vivaldi, Visine, Alka-Seltzer, Dexedrine, and sex, he wouldn't have the energy to keep up the biggest "show" of all — his life. His girlfriend Katie Jagger, his ex-wife Audrey Paris, and daughter Michelle try to pull him back from the brink, but it is too late for his exhausted body and stress-ravaged heart. In his imagination, he flirts with an angel of death named Angelique.