ELEANOR POWELL , AMERICAN DANCER,ACTRESS, BORN 1912 NOVEMBER 21
ELEANOR POWELL , AMERICAN DANCER,ACTRESS, BORN 1912 NOVEMBER 21 Eleanor Powell Born November 21, 1912 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA Died February 11, 1982 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (cancer) Birth Name Eleanor Torrey Powell Nicknames The Queen of Tap Dancing Ellie Height 5' 5¼" (1.66 m) Mini Bio (1) Eleanor Powell was born in 1912 in Springfield, Massachussetts, and got her professional start in Atlantic City clubs, from where she moved into in revue in New York at the Ritz Grill and Casino de Paris at the age of sixteen. She started her career on Broadway in 1929, where her machine-gun foot work gained her the title of world champion in tapping. In 1935 she came to Hollywood where she starred in the great MGM musicals in the late 1930s, establishing herself as a Queen of Ra-Ta-Taps. In spite of the fact that she was primarily a solo performer she also danced with Fred Astaire and George Murphy. After her marriage she wasn...