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Cyd Charisse Hits The Beach, 1950's: A Look Back

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"A Look Back" is a daily column that highlights a moment from fashion's fabulous past. Today's pick is of model, actress and dancer Cyd Charisse on the beach in the 1950's. What a total pinup!



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Marc1940
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12:02 PM on 01/21/2012
Remember her in Brigadoon.
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10:45 PM on 01/20/2012
Mom before she was mom...
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Stuart Jackson
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09:00 PM on 01/20/2012
The photo says 1930 in bottom right corner.
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
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07:37 PM on 01/20/2012
(One day, I will be right. Until that happy day, I will remain steadfast and loyal to the person that I KNOW will someday be the mystery photo)

I say it's Irvin R. Levin!
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holyghost1
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07:21 PM on 01/20/2012
She illustrates the point that more skin is not necessarily sexier....AND, she is not skinny-thin either!
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screw the real world-I'm an artist!
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06:52 PM on 01/20/2012
One of the great beauties of Hollywood's Golden Era. Betty Grable supposedly had 'million dollar legs' but Charisse
was always my ideal. BTW: how come her surname is spelled correctly in the top header and incorrectly in the header above the photo show?
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LMPE
I connect the most dissimilar things
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06:02 PM on 01/20/2012
I only remember Cyd Charisse from "Singin' in the Rain".
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sursum korda
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07:53 PM on 01/20/2012
Her appearance in "Deep in My Heart" was my favourite. That movie is a sleeper but the best musical I've ever seen.
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sursum korda
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07:55 PM on 01/20/2012
She wasn't in it! You're thinking Debbie Reynolds?
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LMPE
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07:57 PM on 01/20/2012
Charisse starred in the Broadway sequence.
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02:02 PM on 01/21/2012
She was in the movie but not in an acting role. Featured extensively in one of the fantasy dance sequences.
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05:51 PM on 01/20/2012
Time is so cruel.
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Huba hubba!
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