Gilda Gray
Birthday: 1895-10-25
Place of Birth: Rydlewo, Znin County, Kingdom of Prussia [now Rydlewo, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland]
Biography: Gilda Gray (born Marianna Michalska; October 25, 1895 – December 22, 1959) was a Polish-American dancer and actress who popularized a dance called the "shimmy" which became fashionable in 1920s films and theater productions. Between 1919 and 1936, Gray made several movies, in all of which she performed her famous shimmy. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Movies
Piccadilly
A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become ...
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The Devil Dancer
An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl...
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Lawful Larceny
During his wife's absence, Andrew Dorsey is snared by Vivian Hepburn, owner of a crooked gambling ho...
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Cabaret
Gloria Trask, who has risen from a squalid East Side environment to stardom in Costigan's nightclub,...
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Rose Marie
An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive bro...
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Aloma of the South Seas
A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education. He returns to his island after ...
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The Girl with the Jazz Heart
When Miriam Smith's devoutly religious aunt and uncle insist that she marry pious Simeon Althoff, sh...
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