From sickly to stunning: The polio survivor who became a Hollywood icon
Cyd Charisse could do it all—sing, act, and, above all, dance like music made flesh. Her impossibly long legs became the stuff of Hollywood legend, yet she began life not as a star but as Tula Ellice Finklea, a sickly Texas girl recovering from polio. Doctors recommended ballet as therapy to strengthen her fragile body….