(1923-) American dancer who made her film debut dancing in the 1937 movie New Faces. In addition to her
motion picture roles she appeared on
Broadway, in nightclubs and on television. In the early 1970s she danced and
sang atop an eight-foot-high (2.4 m)
Great American Soups can in an extravagant television commercial, accompanied by a twenty-four-piece orchestra, dozens of sequined chorus girls and a backdrop of twenty-foot water fountains in the tradition of a 1937
Hollywood musical, promoting "
Great American Soups.