Gwen Verdon

Gwen Verdon was born on Jan 13, 1925 in USA. Gwen Verdon's big-screen debut came with The King Steps Out directed by Josef von Sternberg in 1936. Gwen Verdon is known for Walking Across Egypt directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman, Forrest stars as Stray Dog and Ellen Burstyn as Mattie Rigsbee. Gwen Verdon has got 2 awards and 9 nominations so far. The most recent award Gwen Verdon achieved is Marco Island Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Gwen Verdon plays is Bruno which will be released on Apr 16, 2000.

Gwen Verdon was born to the theater. Her mother, Gertrude, was a vaudevillian and dancer. Her father, Joseph, was an MGM studio electrician. She had to wear corrective boots as a child to straighten out her legs, which were misshapen by childhood illness. Nonetheless, she first appeared as a tapper on stage at age 6. She got her break in Bob Fosse's "Damn Yankees" in 1955. She married Fosse in 1960 and separated from him, although never divorcing him, in the mid-'70s. More stage and screen work quickly followed with highlights in "New Girl In Town", "Redhead", "Sweet Charity", and "Chicago". She and her daughter, Nicole Fosse, created the current stage musical "Fosse". Upon her death, Broadway dimmed all of its marquee lights in tribute.