Foster Fitzsimmons

Foster Fitzsimmons was an American dancer, novelist, and teacher. He was a member of the first all-male dance company in the US, Ted Shawn's Male Dancers. [ "The Men who danced". Pennington, NJ : Dance Horizons Video, c1985.] [http://www.bama.ua.edu/~dhughes/flamessite/neh.html Flames of One Fire: A Multimedia History of the Denishawn Legacy, D. Hughes] He left Ted Shawn's company to form a partnership with Miriam Winslow; they performed together for many years, appearing with the Boston, Detroit, and Toronto Symphonies as well as at the Guild Theatre in New York City and at the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center. They toured South America for five months in 1941. [http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/ead/dance/danwinsl/@Generic__BookTextView/175;pt=180 Miriam Winslow biography, NY Public Library online]

Fitzsimmon's most notable work as a writer was his 1949 novel "Bright Leaf", which became a film starring Gary Cooper and Lauren Bacall in 1950. Fitzsimmons taught for many years in the Departments of Dance and Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=85996 NY Times review of "Bright Leaf" by Bosley Crowther]

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*http://www.bama.ua.edu/~dhughes/flamessite/connections/Fitz/fitzsimmons.html