The Girl I Left Home For - Gwen Verdon

 

Jenny

The Girl I Left Home For

Gwen Verdon

Joe Reisman And His Orchestra

Cover Photo: David B. Hecht

RCA Victor LPM-1152

1956

From the back cover: Gwen Verdon's electrifying performance in Can-Can sent the Broadway critics hurrying off to their thesauri for new adjectives; she was hailed as the greatest Broadway "discovery" since Mary Martin first sand "My Heart Belongs To Daddy.

Miss Verdon was born in Culver City, California, near the M-G-M studio where her father has been an electrician for twenty-nine years. Her mother, a protege of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, managed a Denishawn school in Culver City. Enrolling there at an early age, Miss Verdon received further ballet training from Ernest Belcher, father of Marge Champion. She did not pursue a dancing career in earnest, however, until 1948, when, as a columnist and film critic for the Hollywood Reporter, she saw Jack Cole in a night club. Inspired by Cole's performance, she dusted off her dancing shoes to  become his partner and assistant for five years. She has danced on Broadway in Alive And Kicking And Magdalena, returned to the Coast to appear in the movies On The Riviera, David And Bathsheba, Meet Me After The Show and Mississippi Gambler. Then came Can-Can on Broadway, assuring her a permanent niche in the gallery of big-time stars.

Her most recent success, "Damn Yankees," has brought her even greater fame, and she ranks as one of the brightest stars in show business.

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