From sickly to stunning! The polio survivor who became a Hollywood icon
Cyd Charisse could do everything—sing, act, and above all, dance like music made flesh. Her impossibly long legs became a Hollywood legend, but her story began far from the lights of MGM. Born Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas, in 1922, she entered the world as a fragile, sickly child who contracted polio before she…