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Vera Zorina Profile
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| (Eva Brigitta Hartwig) |
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| 2 January 17 | is born in Berlin, Germany, to a German father and a Norwegian mother |
| ? | spends her childhood summers in the coastal town of Kristiansund, Norway, her parents’ hometown |
| c. 23 | debuts in Kristiansund at age six as a butterfly in a flower ballet |
| ? | attends private school in Berlin, Germany |
| ? | studies dancing under Nicholas Legat |
| 28 | under the adopted name of Brigitta, she dances in Erik Charrell's Lilac Time and in two Max Reinhardt productions, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tales of Hoffman |
| 33 | goes with Reinhardt to England to appear in Rodney Ackland’s Ballerina |
| 34 | changes her name to Vera Zorina and dances with Col. de Basil’s company of the Monte Carlo Ballets Russes |
| 37 | is in Rogers and Hart's On Your Toes in London |
| 38 | debuts on Broadway in I Married an Angel |
| 24 December 38 | marries choreographer George Balanchine |
| c.40 | is a close acquaintance of Marlene Dietrich, who has an affair with German-born writer Erich Maria Remarque |
| is off to Hollywood to work on a movie, accompanied by her mother and her agent |
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| 41 | the FBI puts her on a list of prominent Hollywood stars who are suspected as contributors to Communist Party causes |
| c. 42 | attends Oskar Homolka’s birthday party with Remarque. Novelists Bertolt Brecht, Franz Werfel, and Lion Feuchtwanger attend, too. She enjoys a wild night with Remarque afterwards. |
| c. 43 | is replaced by Ingrid Bergman in For Whom the Bell Tolls when producer Sam Wood thinks her short, cropped hairstyle makes her nose stand out too prominently |
| January 46 | divorces Balanchine |
| 46 | marries Goddard Lieberson, president of Columbia Records |
| 49? | presents Honegger’s oratorio Joan of Arc at the Hollywood Bowl with actor John Lund |
| ? | her son Peter Goddard Crespian is born. He will become a composer. |
| ? | her son Jonathan is born. He will become a philosophy teacher and receive a Ph.D. from Columbia University. |
| 53 | narrates A Parable of Death by Lukas Foss at the Ojai Festival |
| 70s | is appointed director of the Norwegian Opera in Oslo |
| 77 | becomes the widow of Lieberson |
| 86 | publishes her autobiography, Zorina |
| 89 | her son Jonathan dies |
| 90 | moves to Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| directs Santa Fe Opera productions |
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| 91 | marries harpsichordist Paul Wolfe |
| 00 | lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| 7 April 03 | suffers a cerebral hemorrhage |
| 9 April 03 | dies at age 86 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, of natural causes. Her husband survives. |
| Sources: They Had Faces Then by John Springer, Opposite Attraction by Julie Gilbert, www.IMDb.com | |
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| Links: Filmography Website | |