Carol Haney Net Worth is
$1.9 Million

Mini Biography

Actress/dancer most well-known to make Shirley MacLaine famous, supporting help to make two of Gene Kelly’s most well-known films, (Singin’ in the torrential rain (1952) and An American in Paris (1951)), and in addition building a name for herself on Broadway in “The Pajama Video game”, that was, obviously, the display that produced Bob Fosse recognized to the dance globe along with his fabulous quantity, “Steam Warmth”. Among entertainment’s hardest done-by skills, Carol Haney was created in 1924 in New Bedford, Massachusetts and always knew she would find yourself a dancer – even lot of money tellers informed her thus. Adolescent Carol Haney possessed her self-financed dance college actually before she remaining high school, of which stage she remaining the East for the Western. In Hollywood, she impressed Jack port Cole a lot that he produced her his dance partner and associate. Down the road, she was provided a job helping the fantastic Gene Kelly, therefore Haney stop her place with Jack port Cole, and became a member of up with the Freed device. While helping Gene Kelly from 1950, Haney also made an appearance in a number of of his movies, in the chorus. In fact, the role from the gangster’s moll in the “Broadway Melody” quantity in Singin’ in the torrential rain (1952), ultimately danced by Cyd Charisse, was originally designed for Haney. Nevertheless, Haney adored Gene Kelly and done, rehearsing with Charisse every stage of just how. Haney got her opportunity at dance stardom down the road at MGM, when she was teamed up with a fellow, named Bob Fosse, inside a film called Kiss Me personally Kate (1953). The dance Fosse concocted halted the show, getting him his 1st full choreographic task on Broadway in “The Pajama Video game”, and Fosse, consequently, insisted that Haney become taken to Broadway to dance a role. Nevertheless, George Abbott, the famous Broadway manufacturer was therefore impressed with Haney’s comic capability that he terminated a lead celebrity and mixed her function with Haney’s dance role to generate the function of “Gladys Hotchkiss”. Haney was a full smash in her initial all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing main Broadway function (having not really uttered a phrase previously in virtually any of her film performances), and earned the critics’ acclaim and a Tony on her behalf efforts. The torn ankle ligaments Haney suffered a month in to the show can be popular showbiz folklore, as her absence through the show brought understudy Shirley MacLaine in to the limelight, aswell as the interest of Hollywood producer Hal B. Wallis, who expressly stopped at the show to find out Haney perform. MacLaine was provided a agreement by Wallis soon after her efficiency. Haney recreated her award-winning function in the film edition from the Pajama Video game (1957). She was also identified as having diabetes during filming, collapsing many times during the thorough dance routines. This disease, and a self-destructive function ethic and psychological problems, added to her downfall in 1964, aged at only 39. 700 theatre and dance personalities went to a memorial assistance in her memory space. Like fellow dance great Gwen Verdon, followers of Haney possess only one little bit of film, The Pajama Video game (1957), like a visible record of an excellent talent.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Carol Haney
Died	May 10, 1964, Saddle River, New Jersey, United States
Profession	Actor, Singer, Dancer
Nationality	American
Spouse	Larry Blyden, Eugene Dorian Johnson
Children	Joshua Blyden, Ellen Blyden
Awards	Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Outer Critics Circle Award for Other Awards
Nominations	Tony Award for Best Choreography
Movies	The Pajama Game, Invitation to the Dance, Kiss Me Kate, Summer Stock