Charles H. Blake Biography (1916-)

Addresses: Home: 484 W. 43rd Street #460, New York, NY, 10036; Home: 3325 N. Knoll Drive, Hollywood, CA, 90068.

SIDELIGHTS: "I have enjoyed diversity at the cost of celebrity. All theater is within each of us to give to others--always with joy."

Famous Works

Debut
The Magician, Aska the Magician, Rialto, Louisville, KY, 1930.
New York Debut
understudy (the Kids), Dead End, Belasco, 1936.
London Debut
corps, Ballet Russe, Convent Garden, 1938.
Principal Stage Appearances
dancer, New Faces, Court, New York, 1937; dancer/magician, Crazy with the Heat, 44th Street Theater, 1939; singer, This Is the Army, Broadway, 1942.
Major Tours
singer, Right This Way and This Is the Army, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, OH, Pittsburgh, PA; Groucho Marx Touring Revue, 1946.
Film Debut

singer, This Is the Army, 1944.
Principal Film Appearances
dancer, Her Sister's Secret, 1946; lead, The Red Wagons, 1946; pilot, The Master Key, 1945.
Principal Television Appearances
dancing magician, Rainbow Grill Room Broadcast and Trianon Room Broadcast, 1939.
Directed
Films--The Eighth Lively Art. Ballet--International Ballet.
Choreographed
Plays--Showboat, Germany, 1972. Film--The Eighth Lively Art. Television--Pee Wee King Show.
Theatre-Related Career
Consultant--San Juan Ballet; Buffalo Ballet. Coached/Staged--Emmett Kelly Circus; Musical Revue (Spain); Palmer the Magician, European Magic Festival.
Plays, Unpublished
The Mago (musical).
Books
Inner Dancing, 1980; A Dancer's Handbook, 1981.

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