Gilda Gray
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]
- titulus: Gilda Gray
- popularis: 0.578
- notum enim: Acting
- dies natalis: 1895-10-25
- Locus Natus: Rydlewo, Znin County, Kingdom of Prussia [now Rydlewo, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland]
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- Et ut: Marianna Michalska, Mary Gray, The Shimmy Queen
