Marge Champion Biography

Fast Facts

• Her work in television was commemorated with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960
• Received the Douglas Watt Lifetime Achievement Award at the 31st Annual Fred and Adele Astaire Awards ceremonies
• Won a Career Achievement Award along with Gower Champion at the 2002 American Choreography Awards
• When she was 12 years old, she started teaching ballet at her father's studio
• When she was 14, she started modeling as Snow White at Walt Disney's studio for the crew of animators working on the classic film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs․"
• Quote: "You can celebrate every decade for what it gives you, not for what it takes away․"
• Danced with Gower Champion in a number of successful musicals for MGM
• Her theater credits include a 1955 role in Broadway's "Three for Tonight․"
• After retiring from her film career, she started teaching dance and choreography in New York
• When she was asked if she could ride a horse for her role in the western "Honor of the West," she said she could, then immediately started taking lessons