[N.B.C trade releases]. (1959)

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2 Marge and Gower Champion Marge started her career in her father's dance studio at the age of eight, went on to dance in the movies and West Coast light operas during her teens and then headed for New York. Gower won a dance competition at 15 which led to several years of cross-country touring, danced in the Coast Guard's 'Tars and Spars" during World War IX, appeared in several pictures after the war and then headed for New York. Meeting again. Marge and Gower teamed up in a nightclub act that was an immediate success. After their marriage in 19^7, Gower took on additional tasks of direction and production and won both the Donaldson and Antoinette Perry Awards for his choreography of the highly successful "Lend an Ear." The team made a triumphant return to Hollywood where they made seven pictures in six years, sandwiched in between nightclub and TV engagements. In 1955 they made a 72-city tour in "Three for Tonight" with folk singer Harry Belafonte. Their television work included a full-hour story of their own careers on "The Ed Sullivan Show." Their appearance in the "Bell Telephone Hour's" a 11 -Gershwin program on Nov. 20 will be their first live TV date of the current season. NBC-New York, 10/30/59