Biography
Measurements
Bust: 33"
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Waist: 3-"
Hips: 35"
Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 What we are is God`s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.
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I`d rather dance than eat.
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On her later years as an ordained minister: "I was married to Glenn Ford. But now I feel as though I`m married to God, and in the nicest, purest sense."
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On her later years as an ordained minister: "I was married to Glenn Ford. But now I feel as though I`m married to God, and in the nicest, purest sense."
Religion
"I`d rather dance than eat."
OTHER
"A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer."
OTHER
Trivia
In 1954, following a period of retirement, she was asked to host "The Faith of Our Children" (1953), a non-denominational religious program which featured appearances from film and sports stars. The show lasted three seasons and Eleanor received a regional "Emmy" award for children's programming.
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One of her first New York jobs was working with the legendary Bill Robinson in private shows (1927).
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Took dancing classes as a child to overcome extreme shyness.
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Due to her becoming a minister in the Unity church, her ashes are placed in a bronze replica of the bible. She is interred at Hollywood Forever cemetery just a few steps down the hall from Rudolf Valentino, Peter Finch and several other great legends of film.
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Inducted into the International Tap Dance Hall of Fame in 2002 (inaugural class).
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Her parents separated when she was 11 months and divorced when she was two. Her mother told Eleanor as a child that her father had died to protect them from outside scandal, but Eleanor's father reintroduced himself to Eleanor in 1935 during the Boston run of "At Home Abroad."
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Mother of the actor Peter Ford.
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Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 650-652. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
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Was acclaimed "The World's Greatest Feminine Tap and Rhythm Dancer" by the Dance Masters of America in the mid-1930s.
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Shares a birthday with Björk, Goldie Hawn, Rachel Rogers, Nicollette Sheridan, & Juliet Mills
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With a preference toward ballet and acrobatics (notably her splits), she did not initially tap in her early career. In fact, she disliked the style which she considered lacking in grace. It was when she lost a number of musical roles in New York that she realized the need to learn. Due to her aerial style, she learned to tap by wearing army surplus belts with sandbags attached to ground herself.
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Measurements: 33-23-35 (in 1935), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
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Hollywood Walk of Fame 1541 Vine St.
Inducted into the International Tap Dance Hall of Fame in 2002 (inaugural class).
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 650-652. New York: Charles Scribner`s Sons, 1998.
Shares a birthday with Björk, Goldie Hawn, Rachel Rogers, Nicollette Sheridan, & Juliet Mills
Due to her becoming a minister in the Unity church, her ashes are placed in a bronze replica of the bible. She is interred at Hollywood Forever cemetery just a few steps down the hall from Rudolf Valentino, Peter Finch and several other great legends of film.
Was acclaimed "The World`s Greatest Feminine Tap and Rhythm Dancer" by the Dance Masters of America in the mid-1930s.
Took dancing classes as a child to overcome extreme shyness.
Her parents separated when she was 11 months and divorced when she was two. Her mother told Eleanor as a child that her father had died to protect them from outside scandal, but Eleanor`s father reintroduced himself to Eleanor in 1935 during the Boston run of "At Home Abroad."
With a preference toward ballet and acrobatics (notably her splits), she did not initially tap in her early career. In fact, she disliked the style which she considered lacking in grace. It was when she lost a number of musical roles in New York that she realized the need to learn. Due to her aerial style, she learned to tap by wearing army surplus belts with sandbags attached to ground herself.
One of her first New York jobs was working with the legendary Bill Robinson in private shows (1927).
In 1954, following a period of retirement, she was asked to host "The Faith of Our Children" (1953), a non-denominational religious program which featured appearances from film and sports stars. The show lasted three seasons and Eleanor received a regional "Emmy" award for children`s programming.
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