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    Model for Snow White still dancing at 90
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    Champion's father, Ernest Belcher, was a ballet star who operated the Celeste School of Dance in Los Angeles and directed dance sequences for films. "He worked with Charlie Chaplin and Mack Sennett" recalls Champion, relaxing in a dressing room at a Hollywood dance studio during a visit from her home in Massachusetts. Full Article at Philly.com
    He worked with Charlie Chaplin and Mack Sennett
    SOURCE: Philly.com 2 months ago
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Model for Snow White still dancing at 90
  1. It was maybe one or two or three days a month ... They shot me on 16mm film, and I could do enough in a day's work to keep them busy for two weeks.
    SOURCE: Philly.com 2 months ago
  2. My father wrote me a letter saying he was back ... He came to New York, and we started going out.
    SOURCE: Philly.com 2 months ago
  3. They didn't use every frame, but they couldn't get the movement or my moves or my eyes without it.
    SOURCE: Philly.com 2 months ago
  4. He told me to call him Uncle Walt, because I was too young to call him Walt
    SOURCE: Philly.com 2 months ago
  5. If there was a bed where Show White had to go pray, they had a cot there so I could kneel beside it. It was always very rudimentary and very hot lights, because they wanted as strong a contrast as possible.
    SOURCE: Philly.com 2 months ago
  6. I told Gower about that, and he said, 'Well, if you are going to dance with anybody, you are going to dance with me.' We started rehearsing the next day.
    SOURCE: Philly.com 2 months ago
  7. It all came out in my dancing. Gower and I always told stories. I could never have done leading dance scenes unless I had studied acting.
    SOURCE: Philly.com 2 months ago
  8. When Snow White was running through the forest and scared to death, they had ropes hanging from a clothesline so I would be pushing them aside
    SOURCE: Philly.com 2 months ago
  9. I was married to him for a very short time. When I went to New York with the Three Stooges in a vaudeville show in 1939, he said come back to Los Angeles and have babies. But that wasn't what I had studied 15 years for.
    SOURCE: Philly.com 2 months ago

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