Gilda gray biography

Gilda Gray

Gilda Gray vers 1920

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Gilda Gray, née Marianna Michalska le à Cracovie, Autriche-Hongrie ou à Radlowo, Empire allemand, aujourd'hui Rydlewo (les deux lieux étant aujourd'hui en Pologne) et morte à Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, Californie le , est une danseuse et actrice américaine d'origine polonaise. Elle est inhumée au Holy Cross Cemetery.

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  1. ↑Ralph G. Giordano, Satan in the Dance Hall: Rev. John Roach Straton, Social Dancing, and Morality in 1920s New York City, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland 2008, p. 119, (ISBN 9780810861466) - [1].
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  3. ↑Iwona Góralczyk, « Oto informacje o Mariannie Michalskiej, znanej jako Gilda Gray » - [3]

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Gilda Gray

Gray c.1920

Born

Marianna Michalska


(1895-10-25)October 25, 1895

Rydlewo, German Empire (present-day Poland)

DiedDecember 22, 1959(1959-12-22) (aged 64)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Resting placeHoly Cross Cemetery, Culver City, USA
OccupationDancer, actress
Years active1918–1958
Known forPopularizing the "shimmy"
Spouse(s)

John Gorecki

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(m. 1910; div. 1923)​

Gaillard T. "Gil" Boag

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(m. 1923; div. 1929)​

Hector Briceño de Saa

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(m. 1933; div. 1938)​
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Gilda Gray (born Marianna Michalska; October 25, 1895 – December 22, 1959) was a Polish-American dancer and actress who popularized a dance called the "shimmy" which became fashionable in 1920s films and theater productions.

Early life and 'the shimmy'

According to her own statement, Gilda Gray was born on 24 October 1901 in Kraków (then part of Galicia-Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary, and now part of Poland) and she was an adopted child of Maksymilian (Max) and Wanda Michalski (née Kuras). However, according to her birth certificate she was born on 25 October 1895 in a village Rydlewo near Żnin (Żnin County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship) and Maksymilian (Max) and Wanda Michalski (née Kuras) were her biological parents. In 1903 she emigrated with her parents to the United States. She had one sister, Josephine, who was born on 1904 in Bayonne, New Jersey. At the age of only 14 or 15, Gray entered into an arranged marriage with John Gorecki, a concert violinist, who was the son of Socialist and union leader Martin Gorecki. The couple had one child, then divorced in 1923. Their son later became a bandleader, performing under the name Martin Gray (1913–1969).

Although the shimmy is said to have been introduced to American audiences by Gray in New York in 1919, the term was widely used before, and the shimmy was already a well-known dance move. Gray appropriated it as he

  • Gilda Gray was a Polish-American
  • Gilda Gray, née Marianna Michalska

    • Gilda Gray


    Gilda Gray
    Imię i nazwisko

    Marianna Michalska

    Data i miejsce urodzenia

    25 października 1895
    Rydlewo

    Data i miejsce śmierci

    22 grudnia 1959
    Los Angeles

    Zawód

    aktorka, tancerka

    Współmałżonek

    • John Gorecki (1910−1923; rozwód)
    • Gaillard T. Boag
    (1923−1929; jego śmierć)    • Hector Briceño de Saa
    (1933−1938; rozwód)

    Lata aktywności

    1918–1958

    Gilda Gray (właśc. Marianna Michalska; ur. 25 października1895 w Rydlewie, zm. 22 grudnia1959 w Los Angeles) – polsko-amerykańskaaktorka filmowa i tancerka.

    Życiorys

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    Była córką Maksymiliana Michalskiego i Wandy z Kurasów, którzy wzięli ślub 10 listopada 1894 w Żninie. W 1903 wraz z rodzicami wyemigrowała do Stanów Zjednoczonych. Popularność w Ameryce zdobyła dzięki popularyzacji tańca zwanego „shimmy”, który stał się bardzo modny w latach 20. w filmie i teatrze. Została pochowana na Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery & Mortuary w Culver City.

    Filmografia

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    • 1919: A Virtuous Vamp
    • 1921: A Girl with the Jazz Heart
    • 1923: Lawful Larceny jako tancerka
    • 1926: Aloma of the South Seas jako Aloma
    • 1927: Kabaret (Cabaret) jako Gloria Trask
    • 1927: Diabelska tancerka (The Devil Dancer) jako Takla
    • 1929: Piccadilly jako Mabel Greenfield
    • 1936: Rose-Marie jako Bella
    • 1936: Wielki Ziegfeld (The Great Ziegfeld) jako ona sama

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  • The creator of 'the Shimmy' was

    • Gilda Gray

    (1901-1958)

    The strikingly blonde revue dancer and silent film featured performer, Gilda Gray was born Marianna Michalska in Krakow, Poland. She accompanied her parents to Chicago as a girl, married a violinist while in her teens, and studied stage dancing. When the marriage collapsed she went to New York, signed on as a featured dancer in the Shubert Gaities of 1919. About this time she became known for doing the "shimmy," a vernacular American dance in which individual dancers shook their bodies with a rippling effect. It became a signature and won her a place in Ziegfeld's Follies of 1922.

    Her solo dance suited vaudeville as well as the revue stage, and Gray became enormously popular on the Orpheum circuit. Her image was ubiquitous in American magazines of the mid-1920s. Motion picture producers realized that her enormous name recognition could be converted to theater seats. Jesse Lasky thought a movie could be built around her using the play "Aloma of the South Seas," a cross-racial romance in which a native dancer looms as the central character. The potential for kitsch was high, but Lasky secured Maurice Tournier as director, one of the greatest visual artists of the silent cinema. In would be the highest grossing film of the year and one of the top five hits of the 1920s. The next year found her performing an exotic dancer role in "Devil Dancer." In 1936's Academy Award winning "The Great Ziegfeld," Gray revisted her famous revue dances preserving them for posterity. David S. Shields/ALS