Dancer, Actress Cyd Charisse Dead At 86

Cyd Charisse, a star of MGM musicals in the 1940s and '50s, died Tuesday in Los Angeles of an apparent heart attack at age 86. She co-starred with Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain and Brigadoon and with Fred Astaire in such films as Dancing in the Dark and The Band Wagon. Astaire once remarked about working with her: "When we were dancing, we didn't now what time it was." Survivors include her husband of 60 years, the singer Tony Martin.


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