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Dancer John Brascia dies at 80
Actor and dancer John Brascia, best known for his work in “White Christmas” and “Meeting Me In Las Vegas,” died Feb. 19 in Santa Monica from complications due to Parkinson’s disease. He was 80.
The California native made his Broadway debut performing in the musical version of the film “Nothing Sacred.” After winning the Outer Circle Award and impressing the production’s choreographer Robert Alton, Brascia was cast as the lead dancer in the film “White Christmas” in 1954. Two years later he starred in dance number “Frankie and Johnny” in the movie “Meet Me in Las Vegas.”
In 1957, Brascia met Tybee Arfa and formed the dance duo known as Brascia and Tybee. They married a year later and became regular openers for artists like Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne, Dean Martin, and George Burns. The dancers also frequently appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” “The Jack Benny Show” and “The Hollywood Palace.”
Beginning in 1967, Brascia b
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‘White Christmas’ Dancer John Brascia Dies at 80
John Brascia, the handsome male half of three spectacular Hollywood dance teams in the 1950s and ’60s, died Tuesday at a nursing home in Santa Monica following a 20-year battle with Parkinson’s disease, his daughter said. He was 80.
Tony Bennett, who served as Brascia’s best man at his wedding to actress-model Sondra Scott on New Year’s Eve in 1970, called his longtime friend days before he died, Brascia’s daughter, Christina McNown, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Brascia tap-danced with and twirled the slim-waisted Vera-Ellen in the high-octane “Abraham” number in Michael Curtiz‘s White Christmas (1954) and with the sultry Cyd Charisse in Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956) in another famed number, “Frankie and Johnny.”
In the Las Vegas scene, set in a nightclub and accompanied by the singing of Sammy Davis Jr., Brascia, who was dancing with another woman (Liliane Montevecchi), dies at the hand of Charisse. “He was her mate/but he co
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John Brascia
STAGE CREDITS
Hazel Flagg
[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1953
Willie
Movies
White Christmas
[ 1954 ] John
Meet Me in Las Vegas
[ 1956 ] Specialty Dancer
The Ambushers
[ 1967 ] Rocco
The Wrecking Crew
[ 1968 ] Karl
Walking Tall
[ 1973 ] Prentiss Parley
Executive Action
[ 1973 ] Rifleman - Team B
The Baltimore Bullet
[ 1980 ] Poker Player, New Orleans
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