sixmorereasons Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 I would like to know more about Marge and Gower Champion. I haven't really heard anything on them, nor seen many of the movies they've been in. Would anyone care to fill me in at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicsfan1119 Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Hi Kiddo! Unfortunately, Marge and Gower didn't make a whole lot of movies together. My favorite is "Showboat" (1951), and I can't seem to get enough of watching them in the "Live Upon the Wicked Stage" number. They joined up as a team in 1945, and later married. They were divorced in 1978, and Gower sadly died in 1980 of a rare blood cancer. Marge is still living. You can see a listing of their movies at IMDb.com, but they don't give much in the way of Biographies for either of them there. Perhaps you can find good Biographies for them at websites on the Internet by doing an Internet Search. :)ML Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicsfan1119 Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Oh yeah...another of my early morning "goofs". That should have been "Life Upon the Wicked Stage". More coffee...more coffee! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Weren't both of them also in 1952's "Lovely To Look At"?...they danced to Jerome Kern's "I Won't Dance"...if I remember it well...it also featured Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Red Skelton and Ann Miller...Ann Miller had a fantastic number..."I'll be hard to handle" BTW "Lovely To Look At" is a remake of "Roberta", starring Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edgedrv Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Marge and Gower Champion finished their movie career with JUPITER'S DARLING which was Esther Williams last starring vehicle for MGM. A very offbeat film but a total flop. The duo then co-starred with Betty Grable in her last vehicle at Columbia called THREE FOR THE SHOW. A very silly movie with some great dance production numbers by Jack Cole. Later Marge played a small part in the Burt Lancaster vehicle THE SWIMMER. These days Marge Champion is out and about. I think she lives in NYC and is very good at signing autographs through the mail as well as in person when she comes to Los Angeles. She even sent me a recent photo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feaito Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Now...recalling...Marge also played a part in one of my all-time-very fave pictures, Peter Sellers' "The Party" (dir. by Blake Edwards), she played the Senator's wife???...What a great comedy!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansi4 Posted September 1, 2004 Share Posted September 1, 2004 Marge Champion will be 85 years old tomorrow. Check the Happy Birthday thread in the AM. She and Gower did have a few starring roles including the movie "Everything I Have Is Yours" for MGM which was shown on TCM recently. Mongo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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