"When you dance with her, you stay danced with." - Fred Astaire
Essential Links
Official Site
Cyd's official site has a lenghty bio and plenty of pictures.
This is the best site for all things Cyd, and is available in French as well. The galleries are massive, the information is up to date and the trivia will test you. Mighty good fun!
The other major Cyd fan site is also full of pictures and fan tributes. A site to appreciate very much.
The online movie bible does not disappoint in its Cyd coverage. A great place to start off for beginners.
While this page is still under construction, you will find a bevy of links and other goodies here. This site is so big that you will also find pages on Cyd's films somewhere as well. Nice wallpapers, too - you can even add your own.
Community Links
Cyd Charisse Fanlisting. All hail Cyd, etc.
The BandWagon Fanlisting. Cyd's first leading role was as the haughty ballerina who learns how to dance with Fred Astaire. Their duet 'Dancing in the Dark' is hauntingly beautiful, while nothing beats Cyd and that reveal in 'The Girlhunt Ballet'.
Further Reading and Curiosities
The Broadway Melody was the gargantuan ballet number in 1952's Singin' in The Rain, and it was Cyd's role as a sexy gangster's moll that brought her to the public's attention. In this video she recalls the making of that number, and what it was like to dance opposite Gene Kelly.
Arctic Spray is a product Cyd invented that helps with pain from arthritis, tendonitis and sports injuries. Here is the biography of her from that site, telling how she came up with the formula.
So many publicity pictures of Cyd were made during the forties and fifties that it's sometimes overwhelming when you try to start collecting them. This site has pages and pages of Cyd wearing opera gloves. Go on, indulge in some beautiful pictures of the beautiful woman - that's one of the joys of searching the web for Cyd!
More fabulous pictures can be found here, and are often ones you rarely find elsehwere on the net.
She's famous, and she's a Texan. That's about all you need to know. Nice bio, too.
This insightful essay looks at how the pin-up system helped further Cyd's career, and the legacy she left as a dancer.
Read how the Music Center presented their 19th Distinguished Artist Awards to Cyd, Dustin Hoffman and the late John Ritter.
Article: Cyd Charisse and Tony Martin named Icons of Successful Aging
Cyd and her husband Tony were named by UCLA's Cantre on Aging as Icons of successful aging - and what icons! A vote I heartily endorse.
This article from the San Francisco Chronicle relates an experience with Cyd at dinner one night. When you get to the part where Cyd leaves the table to call her husband, just let out a big "Awww..."
She may not have smoked in real life, but this site details when she did smoke onscreen - and maybe offscreen, too. Oddly, they leave out the naughty smoking in The Bandwagon.
If astrology's your thing, check out Cyd's horoscope here.