Barrie Chase

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Barrie Chase (born October 20, 1933 in Kings Point , New York ) is an American actress and dancer . She gained fame as a dance partner of Fred Astaire and through her roles in films such as A Bait for the Beast and The Flight of the Phoenix .

Life

Barrie Chase was born to the well-known writer Borden Chase and the pianist Lee Keith. Her older brother Frank Chase later became a screenwriter. When Barrie was six years old, she and her family moved to California , where she grew up in Encino and took ballet lessons there. After their parents' divorce, Chase supported her mother and lived with her in Los Angeles .

Chase's career began in 1952 with appearances as a dancer on various television shows and as an assistant choreographer for Jack Cole at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . There she met Fred Astaire, who asked her to appear as his dance partner on the television show An Evening with Fred Astaire . The dance couple appeared in other programs in the following years. During this time, Chase was in a relationship with Astaire, 34 years his senior, who was widowed by his first marriage.

Since 1952, Barrie Chase has also appeared as an actress in several films, including with Fred Astaire. Initially only as a dancer for musicals like Die Girls , later also in larger roles. In 1962, she played Diane Taylor, who was abused by Robert Mitchum's character, in the psychological thriller A Bait for the Beast . In Stanley Kramer's 1963 comedy A Totally, Totally Crazy World , Chase starred as the friend of Sylvester Marcus (played by Dick Shawn ). In 1965 she played the role of Farida in a dream sequence of the otherwise exclusively male adventure film The Flight of the Phoenix .

In 1972 Chase retired into private life. She was married three times, including from 1966 to the divorce in 1968 to the actor and singer Jan Malmsjö . Their current marriage to James Kaufman has one child.

In 2017, Barrie Chase spoke out in connection with the affair between film producer Harvey Weinstein and the MeToo movement. She accused the musical producer and songwriter Arthur Freed of sexual harassment during a casting for the film Brigadoon in 1954 and stated that such incidents and assaults were a well-known topic in Hollywood.

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  1. ↑ Debra Levine: Hollywood harassment nothing new, says Barrie Chase. In: artsmeme.com. October 12, 2017, accessed April 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Chase, Barrie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American dancer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Kings Point , New York