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Tamara Geva (Russian: Тамара Гева, Жева, or Жева; 17 March 1907 – 9 December 1997) was a Russian-American actress, ballet dancer and choreographer. On Broadway, Geva appeared in the musicals Three's A Crowd (1930), Flying Colors (1932) and Whoopee (1928-29). Photo by Alfred Cheney Johnston.

Tamara Geva, was born into wealth in St. Petersburg, Russia, as Tamara Gergeyeva. Because of her family’s Muslim background, she could enroll in the Maryinsky Theater School only after the Russian Revolutionary regime did away with the stipulation that enrollees be Christian. She married the School’s ballroom dance instructor, George Balanchine, in 1923 and became part of his experimental company. She toured with Balanchine, joined the Ballet Russe with him, and later Balaieff’s company of Russian exile dancers, the Chauve-Souris. She premiered two of her husband’s ballets in New York in 1927 and created a sensation. Ziegfeld hired her for the musical Whoopee (1928-29) and she commenced a storied career as a dancer and actress on stage and in films.

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Tamara Geva (Russian: Тамара Гева, Жева, or Жева; 17 March 1907 – 9 December 1997) was a Russian-American actress, ballet dancer and choreographer. On Broadway, Geva appeared in the musicals Three's A Crowd (1930), Flying Colors (1932) and Whoopee (1928-29).

Tamara Geva, was born into wealth in St. Petersburg, Russia, as Tamara Gergeyeva. Because of her family’s Muslim background, she could enroll in the Maryinsky Theater School only after the Russian Revolutionary regime did away with the stipulation that enrollees be Christian. She married the School’s ballroom dance instructor, George Balanchine, in 1923 and became part of his experimental company. She toured with Balanchine, joined the Ballet Russe with him, and later Balaieff’s company of Russian exile dancers, the Chauve-Souris. She premiered two of her husband’s ballets in New York in 1927 and created a sensation. Ziegfeld hired her for the musical Whoopee (1928-29) and she commenced a storied career as a dancer and actress on stage and in films.

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Tamara Geva (Russian: Тамара Гева, Жева, or Жева; 17 March 1907 - 9

December 1997) On Broadway, Geva appeared in the musicals Three's A Crowd

(1930), Flying Colors (1932) and Whoopee (1928-29). Photo by ACJ.

Tamara Geva, was born into wealth in St. Petersburg, Russia, as Tamara Gergeyeva. Because of her family's Muslim background, she could enroll in the Maryinsky Theater School only after the Russian Revolutionary regime did away with the stipulation that enrollees be Christian. She married the School's ballroom dance instructor, George Balanchine, in 1923 and became part of his experimental company. She toured with Balanchine, joined the Ballet Russe with him, and later Balaieff's company of Russian exile dancers, the Chauve-Souris. She premiered two of her husband's ballets in New York in 1927 and created a sensation. Ziegfeld hired her for the musical Whoopee (1928-29) and she commenced a storied career as a dancer and actress on stage and in films.