Name	Tilly Losch (Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine Losch)
Other Name(s)	Countess of Carnarvon
Date of Birth	November 15, 1903
Birthplace	Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Star Sign	Scorpio
Died	December 24, 1974 (Aged 71)
Location of Death	New York City
Cause of Death	cancer
Nationality	Austrian
Ethnicity	White
Occupation	Dancer
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She appeared in the original Broadway stage version of "The Band Wagon", in which she danced with Fred Astaire. Ginger Rogers met Astaire in New York in the early 1930s and saw Astaire in the original stage production of the show. She was enraptured by his dancing with Tilly Losch, and she wrote: "If I had known that I was going to be Fred`s partner in a matter of months, I would have paid closer attention to each move and pause".

Second husband was the Earl of Camarvon, whose father discovered King Tut`s tomb. This marriage gave her the title Lady Camarvon, an English countess.

Chief ballerina to George Balanchine.

Following a severe bout of depression, she turned to painting for self-expression and exhibited her work for a long period of time.

Dance partners included Fred Astaire and Harald Kreutzberg.

Trained in dance at the Vienna Imperial Opera ballet school at age six and became a full member of the ballet corps at age 15. She made her professional debut and reputation, however, dancing Viennese waltzes.

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