- Born
- Died
- Birth nameMarjorie Celeste Belcher
- Nickname
- Marjorie Bell
- Height5′ 2″ (1.57 m)
- 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.- IMDb Mini Biography By: rocknrollunderdawg
- SpousesBoris Sagal(January 1, 1977 - May 22, 1981) (his death)Gower Champion(October 5, 1947 - December 20, 1973) (divorced, 2 children)Art Babbitt(August 8, 1937 - October 2, 1941) (divorced)
- Children
- RelativesLina Basquette(Half Sibling)Alana Champion(Grandchild)
- Was filmed for the reference of Disney animators (her then-husband Art Babbitt was an animator, and supervised much of the reference filming) as a model for the heroine in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio (1940), and Hyacinth Hippo in the "Dance of the Hours" segment of Fantasia (1940) (along with Ruby Dandridge), which she also helped choreograph, in an elaborate parody of a George Balanchine ballet danced by Vera Zorina in The Goldwyn Follies (1938). She recalled doing some modeling for Mr. Stork in Dumbo (1941) .
The "Snow White" sequence was later reworked into a sequence of Maid Marian dancing in Robin Hood (1973). - Her remains were cremated and her ashes scattered at sea.
- Her father, Ernest, was a Hollywood dance director who taught Shirley Temple, Betty Grable, Ramon Novarro, Cyd Charisse, Fay Wray and Joan Crawford, as well as Champion's future husband Gower Champion.
- 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.
- Fantasia (1941) - $25 /day
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938) - $10 /day
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