Marge Champion, who served as the real-life model for Snow White, then teamed with her husband and dance partner, Gower Champion, for Broadway musicals, television shows and movies, has died.
She was 101. Champion, who won an Emmy for choreographing the acclaimed 1975 telefilm Queen of the Stardust Ballroom, died Wednesday in Los Angeles, dance instructor Pierre Dulaine told The Hollywood Reporter.
Survivors include a step-daughter, actress Katey Sagal, and her son, producer-director Gregg Champion. Marge and Gower Champion danced together in several MGM musicals, perhaps most memorably in George Sidney's 1951 remake of Show Boat, which starred Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson and Ava Gardner.
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