Screen Dance Idol Cyd Charisse Dies; (1) Five Million Dollar Legs: Charisse Starring in the 1966 Movie Meet Me in Las Vegas (2) Musical Magic: Charisse with Fred Astaire in 1953 Film the Band Wagon. Astaire Described Her as "Beautiful Dynamite" (3) Grande Dame: Cyd Charisse in 2006

Byline: ROBERT MENDICK

CYD CHARISSE, the star of some of Hollywood's finest musicals and whoselegs were famously insured for $5 million, has died at the age of 86.

Charisse was one of the greatest ever on-screen dancers, starring in Singin' Inthe Rain with Gene Kelly and Silk Stockings with Fred Astaire.

She died yesterday after being admitted to hospital following a suspected heartattack, her publicist said.

Debbie Reynolds, who co-starred with Charisse in Singin' in the Rain, saidtoday: "Her beauty was breathtaking.

The world will miss her dancing." Charisse was one of the stars of the goldenera of the Hollywood musical of the Forties …

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Publication information: Article title: Screen Dance Idol Cyd Charisse Dies; (1) Five Million Dollar Legs: Charisse Starring in the 1966 Movie Meet Me in Las Vegas (2) Musical Magic: Charisse with Fred Astaire in 1953 Film the Band Wagon. Astaire Described Her as "Beautiful Dynamite" (3) Grande Dame: Cyd Charisse in 2006. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: The Evening Standard (London, England). Publication date: June 18, 2008. Page number: 27. © Not available. COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale Group.

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