Nora Kaye-Ross was an American prima-ballerina known for her ability to perform dramatic roles.
13 Facts About Nora Kaye
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Nora Kaye's father, Gregory Koreff was an actor with the Moscow Art Theatre and worked under Konstantin Stanislavski.
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At the age of five, Nora Kaye began studying dancing under tutelage from Michel Fokine and three years later joined a ballet class at the Metropolitan Opera school where she continued her studies under Margaret Curtis.
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When Nora Kaye turned 15, she graduated from the Metropolitan Opera into its corps de ballet.
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Nora Kaye studied at the School of American Ballet and with such notable teachers as Anatole Vilzak, Ludmilla Schollar and Margaret Craske.
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Nora Kaye later became a member of the Radio City Music Hall corps de ballet and danced in several Broadway productions, including Giselle, Antony Tudor's Pillar of Fire, and Two's Company, a revue starring Bette Davis.
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Nora Kaye worked as an assistant on the musicals I Can Get It for You Wholesale, Tovarich, and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.
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Nora Kaye married Michael Murray Van Beuren in 1943 and married violinist Isaac Stern in 1948.
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Nora Kaye was briefly engaged to Jerome Robbins in 1951.
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Nora Kaye married the film director, producer, choreographer and actor Herbert Ross in Majorca in August 1959.
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Playwright and screenwriter Arthur Laurents claimed in his autobiography Original Story By that he and Nora Kaye had an on-again, off-again romantic relationship after he was discharged from the US Army in 1946.
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Nora Kaye's producing credits include The Turning Point, Nijinsky, Pennies from Heaven and The Secret of My Succe$s.
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Nora Kaye-Ross died from cancer in Los Angeles at age 67, and is buried with her husband Herbert Ross in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.