Margery Beddow
{{short description|American actress}}
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|name=Margery Beddow
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|occupation = Actress, director, dancer and choreographer
|birth_date= December 13, 1937
|birth_place= Grosse Pointe, Michigan, U.S.
|death_date= January 3, 2010
|death_place= New York, New York, U.S.
|children = 1
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Margery Beddow (December 13, 1937 – January 3, 2010) was an American actress, dancer, director and choreographer.
Early years
In her early career, Beddow was a prima ballerina of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo and a dancer with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}
Career
Beddow appeared on Broadway in Redhead, Conquering Hero, We Take the Town, Two on the Aisle, Almanac, Take Me Along, Ulysses in Nighttown, and revivals of Fiorello! and Show Boat. She appeared in seven Bob Fosse musicals. She had a small part in the Mel Brooks film The Producers and also appeared in the musical based on the film. She was in the rotating cast of the Off-Broadway staged reading of Wit & Wisdom.[http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/shows/wit-and-wisdom_20415 Profile of Wit & Wisdom], theatermania.com; accessed December 12, 2014.
Aside from Broadway, she choreographed many industrial shows including Chevrolet and Westinghouse in the 1970s. While touring the 1976 production of El Grande de Coca-Cola, she met co-actor Stephen Sweet with whom she had a long-standing relationship who coincidentally was one of the co-stars in the film Last House on Dead End Street.
In 2008, Beddow appeared as Mrs. Shields in the film version of the award-winning play, Doubt, which starred Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.[http://www.backstage.com/bso/news-and-features-news/margery-beddow-broadway-mainstay-dies-at-1004056417.story Backstage coverage of Beddow's death], backstage.com; accessed December 12, 2014.[http://www.playbill.com/news/article/margery-beddow-fosse-dancer-and-author-dies-at-72-164676 Obituary], playbill.com; accessed December 12, 2014.
Death
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Category:Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers
Category:American female dancers
Category:American theatre directors
Category:American women theatre directors
Category:American stage actresses
Category:American musical theatre actresses
Category:American choreographers
Category:Actresses from Michigan
Category:21st-century American women
Category:20th-century American ballet dancers
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