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Cyd Charisse ~ Actor/Dancer ~ March 8, 1992 – June 17, 2008

10:00 AM PDT on June 18, 2008

Cyd Charisse's leg in the dance sequence that made her famous from the 1952 Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly masterpiece "Singin' in the rain"... One of my top 10 most erotically charged scenes in the history of film... not just because of the way Cyd wraps her famously gorgeous legs around a blushing Gene Kelly, or the burning hot chemistry between two of the best dancers of their time... but because of that smile on her face when he finally takes charge.

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