Question: What ever happened to Vera-Ellen, the superpopular actress/dancer of the '40s and '50s ? It seemed like she was a huge star and then just dropped off the face of the earth. Where did she come from and where did she go?Answer: Vera-Ellen Rohe was born in Norwood, Ohio, and raised in Cincinnati. She retired from movies in the '50s and died in 1981 of cancer, aged 60. She was a versatile and disciplined dancer from the time she was a child, which is also when her mother began putting her on a series of eccentric diets that may have contributed to her peculiar adult eating habits. Vera-Ellen dropped her last name and began dancing professionally as a teenager; she worked as a Radio City Music Hall Rockette, in Manhattan nightclubs and on Broadway before going to Hollywood. She made her movie debut in the
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Question: My big brother, who thinks he knows it all, insists that actor Danny Kaye was gay and the lover of Sir Laurence Olivier. I say he was not, that Kaye was married and had children. This has been a bone of contention between us; he thinks I'm being stubborn and that he's right just because he's older. I would seriously like to rub his nose in it. Can you help me?
Answer: To rub your brother's nose in it? Not really, unless you want to claim the high ground by pointing out the difference between gay and bisexual. Needless to say, I wasn't there and can't claim first-hand knowledge of the sex lives of actors Danny Kaye (1913-1987) and Laurence Olivier (1907-1989). But the claim that they had an ongoing relationship for the better part of&nb
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