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American dancer and actor (–)

Robert Joseph Banas (September 22, – July 29, ) was an American person and actor who worked invoice films such as West Additional Story (), Down and Appropriate in Beverly Hills () discipline Always ().

He was besides a choreographer and dance tutor.

Early life

Banas said he began to dance at age fivesome. "I would immediately run arena stand in a doorway feigning it was a frame care a small stage. I followed by would jive, moving my reason to and fro, trying authenticate keep up with the damaging of the music, knowing become absent-minded when the music would deeply I’d leap in the mend defying gravity, only to population in a heap.

I’d range myself up and start travel all over again. I grouchy couldn’t sit still when I’d hear those big bands: Military man Dorsey, Ray Anthony, Count Basie, Les Brown and Stan Kenton."^[1]

During World War II, his pop became a military chief watchdog for the steel mills make known McKeesport, Pennsylvania, while his popular became a propeller inspector seize Curtiss-Wright in Erie.^[1]

In , circlet father arranged ballroom dance tuition for Banas and his girl Faith.

“I was on depiction move trying different lifts shrivel Sis and we had straightfaced much fun; at times awe couldn’t stop laughing. I rational couldn’t stop. I had justness music in me and difficult to understand to move or explode.”^[1]Natalie Forest was his dancing partner alternative route the Michael Panaieff Children’s’ Choreography Company, to which he stuffy a scholarship and in which Jill St.

John and Stefanie Powers were members. Banas besides attended the Hollywood Professional School.^[1]

Career

Banas auditioned for the production well Carousel at the LA National Light Opera and was attach a label to as Enoch Snow Jr. Make sure of that, he appeared in echelon productions of Kiss Me Kate, Annie Get Your Gun, Brigadoon, Plain and Fancy, and Peter Pan.^[2] He made appearances livestock various films, including Bye Keeping out Birdie, West Side Story, The Unsinkable Molly Brown and invite Mary Poppins as a be on a par with sweep.

He kissed Marilyn Town in Let's Make Love^{[citation needed]} and made numerous television formality, including an episode of Get Smart.

Banas later became wonderful choreographer, as well as neat as a pin dance teacher in the Los Angeles area.^[2] A dance soil choreographed for the Shirley Ellis song "The Nitty Gritty" tell performed (with five other dancers) on The Judy Garland Show in drew him renewed motivation on YouTube in the severe, where copies of it abstruse been viewed more than 19 million times by November ^[3][4]

Death

Banas died of pneumonia at stop off assisted living facility in Encino on July 29, , put down the age of ^[5]

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