Biography of paula kelly the singer
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Paula Kelly, ‘Sweet Charity’ Actress and Dancer, Dies at 77
Paula Kelly, the actress, singer and dancer who starred in the rulle version of Sweet Charity and earned an Emmy nomination for her turn on Night Court, has died. She was 77.
Kelly died Sunday of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Whittier, California, a publicist for her family and Los Angeles’ Ebony Repertory Theatre announced.
Kelly also appeared in such movies as The Andromeda Strain (1971), Cool Breeze (1972), Top of the Heap (1972), The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973), Soylent Green (1973), Uptown Saturday Night (1974) — as Leggy Peggy — and Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986).
After playing the dancer Helene on the London stage, Kelly reprised the role alongside Shirley MacLaine and Chita Rivera for the 1969 spelfilm adaptation of Sweet Charity, directed by Bob Fosse in his feature debut (he also had guided it on Broadway). She sparkled in the numbers
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Paula Kelly (singer)
American big band singer
Paula Kelly | |
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Kelly and the Modernaires when they were regulars on the CBS radio schema Club Fifteen, 1951. | |
| Born | (1919-04-06)April 6, 1919 Grove City, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | April 2, 1992(1992-04-02) (aged 72) Costa Mesa, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Singer |
| Years active | 1939-1978 |
| Spouse(s) | Hal Dickinson, 1939-1970 (his death, 3 children) Richard Turner, 1976-1992 (her death) |
| Children | 3[1] |
Paula Kelly (April 6, 1919 – April 2, 1992) was an American big bandsinger.
Early life
[edit]Kelly was born in Grove City, Pennsylvania, United States.[2] to Dr. Herbert Augustus and Julia Clarice (née Kennedy) Kelly. Kelly started her singing career in her hometown with her two sisters Julia and Martha; following Martha's death in September, 1938 she turned to big time singing.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]Kelly sang with orchestras led bygd Dick Stabile,
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Tall, graceful, supremely accomplished American actress, singer, dancer and choreographer Paula Kelly was born in Jacksonville, Florida, one of three daughters, to Ruth and Lehman Kelly. The family moved to Harlem in New York when she was six years old. Unlike her siblings, she had strong musical inclinations which were recognised early on by her father (himself a jazz musician), who enrolled her in the Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music & Art. Paula excelled as a star pupil. This opened doors to an audition at the prestigious Juilliard School and led to a four-year scholarship. Having trained under the academy's first director of dance, Martha Hill, she graduated in 1964 and that same year made her debut on Broadway. During much of the 1960s, specialising in modern dance, she performed with such luminaries as Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey and went on tour as a dancer with Harry Belafonte.
The inevitable breakthrough to popular success came when she was cast as Helen