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Harriet Hoctor
Ballerina + Dancer + Actress
Female
Born
Sep 25, 1905
Hometown
Hoosick Falls, Ne...
Died
Jun 9, 1977
Death Place
Arlington, Virginia
Harriet Hoctor was a ballerina, dancer, actress and instructor from Hoosick Falls, New York. Composer George Gershwin composed a symphonic orchestral piece specifically for Hoctor in the film Shall We Dance (1937).
Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Harriet Hoctor.
CHILDHOOD
1905
Birth
Born on September 25, 1905.
TWENTIES
1929
23 Years Old
By 1929, she was given the first opportunity to dance during a ballet staging of George Gershwin's An American in Paris.
1932
26 Years Old
She appeared in the Vanities revue of Earl Carroll in 1932 after a year of performing in England, at the London Hippodrome tapping up and down an escalator en pointe.
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THIRTIES
1940
34 Years Old
Hoctor joined Billy Rose Productions in 1940, dancing and choreographing at Rose's night club, The Diamond Horseshoe.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1977
72 Years Old
Harriet Hoctor died in Arlington, Virginia, at the Northern Virginia Doctor's Hospital, in 1977, aged 71.
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