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Musicals are back, and Cyd Charisse is dancing.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Doug Nye
No one was happier than Cyd Charisse when "Chicago" became a box-office hit and won an Oscar for Best Picture in March.
Charisse has a special place in her heart for movie musicals. She was one of the genre's great dancers during the 1950s.
"I don't know if this means a revival of the musical or not, but I hope so," Charisse said during a recent telephone conversation. "I think the public is starved for something entertaining like `Chicago.'"
Charisse rode the last great wave of the movie musical, a staple of film fare in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. The screen lit up whenever the script called for Charisse to take the ...
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