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SPEAKER_01: Hello, from Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan and this is Womanica. This month we're talking about movers and shakers, dancers, stunt women, martial artists, and other pioneering women who use their physical prowess to shake things up. Today we're talking about Hollywood royalty and a dancer of mythic proportions. Though her screen time was fleeting, her dreamlike dance numbers wowed audiences and still do today. Please welcome Sid Sharice. Sid was born Tula Finklia in Amarillo, Texas on March 8th, 1922 or 1921 depending on who you ask. The name Tula didn't stick for long. Her brother couldn't quite pronounce Sis, so Sid was born. Young Sid enrolled in dance classes to regain her strength after contracting polio. But if dancing was ever just a pastime, it didn't stay that way for long. By the time she was a teenager, she'd auditioned for the prestigious Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo and started touring with the company on both sides of the Atlantic. In Europe, Sid reconnected with a dancer named Nico Sharice. After a quick romance, the two married in 1939. Soon thereafter, World War II broke out and the young couple returned to the US. They settled in Los Angeles where dancers were a hot commodity. After all, the era of the Hollywood movie musical was in full swing. Sid, an accomplished dancer in her own right, didn't have much interest in the silver screen. But legends always have a way of finding their way to their destiny. A former Ballet Russes star invited Sid to perform in a new movie called Something to Shout About. The film wasn't a huge hit, but the camera had caught sight of Sid. Slim and lithe with jet-black hair and dark eyes, Sid was a natural on film. She signed onto a seven-year contract with MGM Pictures. Over the next few years, she underwent boot camp at the studio, singing lessons, acting lessons, and dictation lessons to weed out her Texan accent. Her dancing was immaculate. Her singing, not so much. Sid was essentially tone deaf, which hindered her ability to star as a leading lady in most musicals. Still, she was such a graceful performer she had no difficulty finding jobs. For her first few pictures, Sid appeared in un-billed dancing roles. Eventually, she became a featured dancer, bringing ethereal, pivotal visions to life. While Sid's career was on the up and up, her personal life was more complicated. Sid and her family were in a divorce in 1948. Soon after, she married Toni Martin, a popular singer. They had a son together in 1950. Sid's pregnancy prevented her from playing a featured ballerina in a little Academy Award-winning movie called An American in Paris, starring Gene Kelly. But Sid Sharice was not an easily forgotten talent. Soon enough, she was cast in Gene Kelly's next project, the instant classic Singin' in the Rain. Sid only appears in a few minutes of the film, near the end, but she stuns for every second of her time on screen. Sid graces the screen in an emerald-green dress, her dark hair cropped to her ears, blowing tendrils of smoke from a long cigarette holder. Her moves rival Gene's playing a cool mobster's maul against his overeager everyman. While he's blinded by New York City's lights, she shines under them. And then, as if to show her infinite versatility, Sid transform into a wistful ballerina in the number's second half. She twirls against a lavender expanse, trailing a 25-foot-long white silk scarf behind her. With the success of Singin' in the Rain, Sid Sharice was officially a star. Just a year later, she shared top billing in The Bandwagon, this time across from the other reigning king of dance, Fred Astaire. Sid outdanced him, too. Fred would later write that, when you've danced with Sid, you stay danced. Their numbers together included a nighttime stroll through Central Park and a parody of gritty gangster tropes. They were some of the most complicated and hot-blooded onscreen at the time. Sid made her last grand onscreen appearance in 1957's Silk Stockings. Her performance earned her a Golden Globe nomination. But by this time, Hollywood was shifting away from movie musicals, the end of that golden era. For the next few decades, Sid tried her hand at acting, but mostly stayed on the sidelines. She found a bit more luck on TV, where she showcased her dancing on Hollywood specials and retrospectives. In the 1990s, Sid tried her hand at a few different endeavors. She appeared on Broadway as a fading ballerina in a production of Grand Hotel. She also cameoed in Janet Jackson's music video for All Right. And just for good measure, Sid released an exercise video for seniors called Easy Energy Shape Up. Through it all, Sid kept her focus. In 2004, in an interview about her life for the Television Academy, Sid was asked how she'd like to be remembered. Her reply, as a dancer. Sid died of a heart attack on June 17th, 2008. She was 86 years old.
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