Tommy Rall, the actor and acrobatic dancer who displayed his athletic dexterity in the classic MGM musicals Kiss Me Kate and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, has died.
He was 90. Rall died Tuesday of congestive heart failure in Santa Monica, his friend Cynthia Wands reported on Facebook. On Broadway, the dynamic Rall performed for famed choreographers Jerome Robbins, Agnes de Mille and Gower Champion and appeared in productions including Miss Liberty, Call Me Madam and Milk and Honey.
Later, he showed up as Barbra Streisand's princely dance partner in the parody of Swan Lake in Funny Girl (1968) and shared a vaudeville tap number to "It's a Girl" with Steve Martin in Pennies From Heaven (1981).
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