Dancer Marge Champion, who served as a live-action reference model for many of Disney’s early animated feature films, including the title character of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, has passed away at 101. The daughter of Ernest Belcher, a ballet coach who taught such iconic performers as Shirley Temple, Gwen Verdon, and Cyd Charisse, Champion, born on September 2nd, 1919, was a prodigious dancer at a young age. By the age of 12, she was already teaching ballet, and […]

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