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WHO'S WHO IN
Currently featured every Saturday night on NBC-TV's Your Show of Shows, in which she sings songs ranging from blues to operatic arias, is Marguerite Piazza, who has reversed the usual trend by which aspiring singers finally achieve the mecca of their desires — starring roles at the Metropolitan Opera House. Marguerite made the Met via Broadway and television.
Background of the dark-haired beauty from New Orleans is that of a precociously talented youngster. She danced, sang, acted — she was even a college cheer leader — before settling on opera as a goal.
Marguerite believes a career has to be achieved step by step and though she has more professional offers than she could possibly accept, she has said "no" to everything this season, including the movies, to concentrate on her TV show and the Metropolitan. The Metropolitan, incidentally, makes every' effort to free her from singing on Saturday nights at the Opera House. It realizes how important television has become in forming new audiences for opera and for its stars.
Felicia Montealegre, whom you can see frequently on such shows as Studio One, Silver Theatre, Starlight Theatre, Sure As Fate and Suspense, is the second of three daughters of an American father and a Chilean mother. Felicia was born in Santiago, Chile, on February 6, 1922. She attended preparatory school at the French Convent and studied music at the University of Chile. At the Municipal Theatre Felicia studied drama and voice under the famous Chilean actress, Margarita Xirgu.
In 1944, she came to New York to study piano under Arrau. Her first acting role in America was in a Lorca play, "Five Years Past." Felicia's Broadway experience includes appearing in "Swan Song" and "The Happy Time."
When Worthington Miner, who produces CBS's Studio One, asked her to read for a part in his production of Tolstoy's "Redemption," Felicia not only got the job — she was immediately asked to play the lead in the next adaptation. Felicia is currently as busy on TV as any actress could wish to be.
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