Gisa Geert, stage name of Margarita Gross (

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, 7 June 1900 –

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, 2 April 1991), was an

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and choreographer, who was very active in

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from the 1940s to the 1960s.

Biography

Geert had been a member of the 'Bodenwieser Ensemble', founded under dancer

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. At the turn of the

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she had choreographed many performances of the revue theatre, working among others with companies and

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and

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, before moving to the more modern musical comedy and vaudeville Garinei e Giovanni. By virtue of the severity with which she operated she earned the nickname the career of the iron lady.See
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– There you eat! – staged in the season of 1949-1950. On that occasion, one of the choreographic pictures involved were chess pieces with living pawns, or with the dancers depicting the capital in a play against labour; in the end there were illuminated fountains with squirted jets of water up to five metres high. On television, she filmed the choreography for several programs in the 1960s, including the first season of The Friend of the Jaguar, led by Corrado Mantoni.See
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Choreography

Theatre

*''C'era una volta il mondo'' (1947-1948) *''Bada che ti mangio!'' (1949-1950) *''Oh quante belle figlie madama Doré'' (1955-1956) – text by Italo Terzoli and

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, with the same Chiari and Carlo Campanini with

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. *''A prescindere'' (1956-1957) *''Masanello'', Bruno Corbucci and Aldo Grimaldi, with

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, Macario and Miranda Martino. *''La voce dei padroni'' (1966-1967) – texts by Faele - Castaldo, show by Garinei e Giovanni, with Alighiero Noschese.

Television

*''Il Mattatore'' (1959) *''L'amico del giaguaro'' (1961) *''Scaramouche'' (1965) *''Non cantare, spara'' (1968) *'' Fantastico'' (1979)

Cinema

*''Cintura di castità ( On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...)'' (1950) *'' Attila'' (1954) *''A sud niente di nuovo'' (1957) *'' Le fatiche di Ercole (The Labours of Hercules)'' (1958)

Filmography

*''A sud niente di nuovo'' (1957) *'' Menage all'italiana'' (1965)

References

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