TAMARA TOUMANOVA 



Vintage, autograph letter on Easter card to Darling Kate,
in green pen, no date, 3 1/4" x 4 1/4"

Signed: "Tamara Toumanova"


Condition: very good



Tamara Toumanova was a Russian-born American ballerina; known as "The Black
Pearl of the Russian Ballet". In 1932 she joined George Balanchine's Ballet Russe de
Monte Carlo and performed in ballet for the next 40 years. She appeared in 6 Hollywood
films between 1944 and 1970, always playing dancers: Days of Glory (1944), Russian prima
ballerina Anna Pavlova in Tonight We Sing (1953), French dancer Gaby Deslys in Deep in 
My Heart (1954), a dance scene with Gene Kelly in Invitation to the Dance (1956), the lead
ballerina in Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain (1966), and Russian ballerina Madame Petrova
in Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970). 



Born: 1919, Siberia; died: 1996, Santa Monica, California.


George Houle 

Houle Rare Books & Autographs

Palm Springs, California 

SINCE 1976


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