Which Days of Glory star had their ballet debut at age 10 in the Paris Opera?
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Days of Glory (1944 film) Days of Glory is a 1944 American film which tells the story of a group of Soviet guerrillas fighting back during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia. It starred Tamara Toumanova and Gregory Peck (in their feature film debuts). It was also the first film produced by screen writer Casey Robinson, who in early January 1943 had been contracted by RKO Radio Pictures to write and produce the film under the working title "This Is Russia". Robinson and Toumanova married in 1944 and divorced in 1955.
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Tamara Toumanova Tamara Toumanova (Russian: Тамара Туманова Georgian: თამარა თუმანოვა , Armenian: Թամար Թումանեան ; 2 March 1919 – 29 May 1996) was a Russian-born American prima ballerina and actress. A child of exiles in Paris after the Russian Revolution of 1917, she made her debut at the age of 10 at the children's ballet of the Paris Opera.
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Richard Cragun Richard Cragun (5 October 1944 – 6 August 2012) was an American ballet dancer who rose to international fame with the Stuttgart Ballet in Germany. He has been called a "prince of the ballet world" and "one of the most important dancers of the twentieth century."
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Louise Chevalier Louise Chevalier (1774 - died after 1801), was a French actor and opera singer. She was active in Russia in the French theater troupe of her spouse, the ballet dancer and playwright (Pierre Peicam), from 1797 until 1801. During her tenure in Russia, she was the lover of first the Master of the Stables, the court noble and emperor's favorite Ivan Kutaisov, and then of emperor Paul I of Russia. She was an important figure during the reign of Paul I, when she wielded great influence as a channel for supplicants to Kutaisov and the emperor, and reportedly accepted substantial sums as such, and attracted great animosity in St Petersburg. After the fall of Paul I in March 1801, she was asked to leave Russia by czar Alexander. It is not confirmed what happened to her after this, though conflicting reports place her as a courtesan and a spy in Paris, in Germany and in Poland.
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Henriette Hansen Henriette Hansen (7 May 1814, in Oslo – 1892 in Oslo), was a Norwegian stage actress, opera singer and ballet dancer. She belonged to the pioneer generation of the first public theatre in Norway, the theatre of Johan Peter Strömberg in Oslo in 1827. This being the first public stage in Norway, she may be regarded as the first native professional ballet dancer in Norway: the first ballet dancer in Norway was likely the foreign Madame Stuart.
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David Belle David Belle (born 29 April 1973) is a French actor, film choreographer and stunt coordinator. He is deemed the founder and leading pioneer of the physical discipline Parkour, coining it based on his training and the teachings from his father Raymond Belle.
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Hetty Baynes Henrietta Sara Louise Baynes (born 16 August 1956) is an English film, television and theatre actress. She began her career as a ballet dancer at the Royal Ballet School and made her professional debut at 12 in Rudolf Nureyev's "The Nutcracker" and then "Sleeping Beauty" at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In her mid-teens she moved from dance to acting.
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Austin Miller Austin Miller is an American actor, dancer, and singer, known for television and stage performances. He played the part of Hawk in the soap opera "Days of Our Lives", performed in the "Hairspray" musical in both a national tour and a Las Vegas production, and in 2007 was on the televised competition "", "Trip of Love" the multimillion-dollar stage spectacular in New York City, and has subsequently become a television and film writer and producer, while building a lifestyle brand "The Gentleman Caller".
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Alexander Grant (dancer) Alexander Grant (22 February 1925 – 30 September 2011) was a New Zealand ballet dancer, teacher, and company director. After moving to London as a young man, he became known as "the Royal Ballet's most remarkable actor-dancer in its golden period from the 1940s to the 1960s."
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Marie Lesueur Marie Lesieur (8 October 1799, Paris - 6 April 1890, Ixelles, Brussels), known as Lesueur, was a French ballet dancer.
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Natalya Sedykh Natalya Yevgenyevna Sedykh (Russian: Ната́лья Евге́ньевна Седы́х) (born 10 July 1948) is a Russian figure skater, ballet dancer, and film actor.
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Vaslav Nijinsky Vaslav Nijinsky (also Vatslav; Russian: Ва́цлав Фоми́ч Нижи́нский ; ] ; Polish: "Wacław Niżyński" ; 12 March 1889/18908 April 1950) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent, cited as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century. He was celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations. He could dance "en pointe", a rare skill among male dancers at the time and was admired for his seemingly gravity-defying leaps.
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Pas de deux In ballet, a pas de deux ] (French, literally "step of two") is a dance duet in which two dancers, typically a male and a female, perform ballet steps together. The pas de deux is characteristic of classical ballet and can be found in many well-known ballets, including "Sleeping Beauty", "Swan Lake", and "Giselle". It is most often performed by a male and a female (a "danseur" and a "ballerina") though there are exceptions, such as in the film "White Nights", in which a pas de deux is performed by Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines.
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Xiomara Reyes Xiomara Reyes is a former principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre. Born in Cuba, Reyes trained at the Cuban National Ballet School. After graduation, she danced as a soloist with "La Joven Guardia", an offshoot of Cuba's National Ballet. After two years, she was invited to perform with the Royal Ballet of Flanders in Belgium and danced with that company for seven years, rising to the rank of first soloist.
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Natalia Makarova Natalia Romanovna Makarova (Russian: Ната́лия Рома́новна Мака́рова , born 21 November 1940) is a Soviet-Russian-born prima ballerina and choreographer. "The History of Dance", published in 1981, notes that “her performances set standards of artistry and aristocracy of dance which mark her as the finest ballerina of her generation in the West.”
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Ragtime (I) Ragtime (I) is the second of three ballets made by New York City Ballet's co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky's 1918 "Ragtime for Eleven Instruments"; with scenery by Robert Drew previously used for Lew Christensen's 1947 work for Ballet Society, "Blackface"; costumes by Karinska and lighting by David Hays. The premiere took place on December 7, 1960, at City Center of Music and Drama, conducted by Robert Irving, as part of a quartet of works titled "Jazz Concert", together with dances by Todd Bolender's "Creation of the World", Francisco Moncion's "Les Biches" and John Taras' "Ebony Concerto". Balanchine's 1966 "Ragtime (II)" was also made for City Ballet; his previous ballet to Stravinsky's "Ragtime" was one of a number of "informal little things" made in St. Petersburg in 1922.
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Monique Loudières Monique Loudières (born 15 April 1956) is a French ballet dancer and teacher. A member of the Paris Opera Ballet from 1967, she received the status of principal dancer in 1982. After retiring from the stage in 1996, she continued to accept invitations until 2010. From 2001 to 2008, she was artistic director at the École supérieure de danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower.
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Roschdy Zem Roschdy Zem (born 27 September 1965) is a French actor and filmmaker of Moroccan descent. He shared the award for Best Actor for his role in the film "Days of Glory" at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
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Jean-Antoine Petipa Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Petipa (16 February 1787, Paris – 28 July 1855, Saint Petersburg) was a French ballet dancer and the father of Marius Petipa.
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The Firebird The Firebird (French: "L'Oiseau de feu" ; Russian: Жар-птица , "Zhar-ptitsa") is a ballet by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, with choreography by Michel Fokine. The scenario by Alexandre Benois and Fokine is based on Russian fairy tales of the magical glowing bird that can be both a blessing and a curse to its owner. Premiered in Paris on 25 June 1910, the work was an instant success with both audience and critics.
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Anna Ludmilla Anna Ludmilla (born Jean Marie Kaley January 12, 1903 Chicago - died April 18, 1990 Houston) was a ballet dancer based in Chicago, New York City, and then France. She toured widely before injuring her leg in 1930 and after that focused on ballroom dancing and teaching. During her career, she performed for the Chicago Opera Ballet in the Chicago Opera Association, later known as Chicago Civic Opera Company, on Broadway in New York City, and in film. As a teacher she moved with her husband to Panama where she headed the ballet division of a new National School of Dance.
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Carla Fracci Carla Fracci (] ; born 20 August 1936, Milan) is an Italian ballet dancer and actress. Thanks to her extensive career and her acclaimed interpretation of several classical romantic ballets such as "La Sylphide", Fracci became one of the most experienced and recognized interpreters of Romantic ballets. “As Erik Bruhn once said, [Fracci] gave the world a new idea of the ballerina in 19th-century Romantic ballets.” Her career highlights include "Nijinsky", "Giselle" (American Ballet Theatre), Complete Bell Telephone Hour Performances: Erik Bruhn 1961-1967.