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| Born | 12 October 1923 |
| Died | 28 July 1996 |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
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Madeleine Rosay bornMagdalena Rosenzveig (12 October 1924 – 28 July 1996) was a Brazilian ballet dancer and TV presenter.
Rosay was born inRio de Janeiro in 1923 to Polish Jewish parents, David Rosenzveig and Jeannette Kohn. She started to learn to dance at the age of seven underMaria Olinewa. Within four years she was a member of theTheatro Municipal's Academy of Ballet's as a salaried dancer.[1] Her parents were not keen that when she became a professional ballet dancer but they agreed to her arguments of how artistic it was. She was aprima ballerina at the age of fifteen.[2]
She went on to teach at the Theatro Municipal where her students included the singerSylvia Telles.[3] In 1942 she appeared in an advertisement for Palmolive soap.
In 1947 she married and her husband objected to her dancing. Rosay created a new career in television. She went on to host a version of "What's My Line" which was called "Guess what it does"[4] and it started in Brazil in 1953. She was later the presenter of the programme "Break the Bank".[4]
There is a ballet school in Brazil which is named for Rosay.[5]
Caderno "Tribuna Bis", seção "Cadê Você/Madeleine Rosay" (disponível na Hemeroteca Digital da Biblioteca Nacional)
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