Margot Fonteyn

Margot Fonteyn was born on May 18, 1919 in UK. Margot Fonteyn's big-screen debut came with Escape Me Never directed by Paul Czinner in 1935. Margot Fonteyn is known for That's Dancing! directed by Jack Haley Jr., Mikhail Baryshnikov stars as Self - Host and Ray Bolger as Self - Host. The upcoming new movie Margot Fonteyn plays is That's Dancing! which will be released on Jan 18, 1985.

Peggy Hookham was always destined to be a dancer. Her Brazilian/Irish mother groomed her for stardom from almost as soon as she could walk. When she was aged 8 her father's work took the family to Shanghai. Peggy and her Mother returned to the UK when she was 14. Her father stayed in Shanghai and was interned by the Japanese for the duration of the war. Young Peggy was enrolled with the Royal Ballet School just when they were looking for a young British dancer to groom as the new Prima Ballerina. Until then all leading dancers in Britain had been Russian or French. Part of the grooming process was to change her name to