System Mechanic - Clean, repair, protect, and speed up your PC!Vera Zorina
January 02, 1917 - April 09, 2003
Dancer Vera Zorina died Wednesday, April 9, 2003 at her Santa Fe home after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage earlier in the week. She was 86.
Born Eva Brigitta Hartwig on Jan. 2, 1917, in Berlin, Zorina began studying ballet at age six with Evgenia Eduardova and Victor Gsovsky in Kristiansund. She was a star in Europe in the mid 1930s and danced all over the continent and had several tours in the U.S. So acclaimed was she in the West End production of "On Your Toes" in London that Samuel Goldwyn Studios brought her to the U.S. in 1937. She made her Broadway debut in I married An Angel, the 1938 Rodgers and Hart musical in which she starred as a celestial creature sent to Earth to dispense honesty and goodness. The show was choreographed by George Balanchine, her first husband and later founder of the New York City Ballet. Zorina then appeared in Louisiana Purchase, the hit 1940 Irving Berlin musical, in which she played a sultry woman out to compromise a U.S. senator. Dream with Music, her next Broadway musical, expired in less than a month in 1944.
In 1946, Zorina married Columbia Records producer Goddard Lieberson, who died in 1977. She moved to Santa Fe with Paul Wolfe, her third husband, in 1990.
Zorina was predeceased by a son Jonathan, in 1989, and is survived by another son Peter Lieberson, and three granddaughters.
