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Stage Name

Birth Name

Tony De Marco Antonio De Marco
Nina Kroner (Nina De Marco) Helen Kroner
Renée Leblanc? (Renee DeMarco) Renée Nerney-Coates
Sally Craven (Sally DeMarco) Ora Lee Allen

   -The De Marco's were actually one of eight different partners. Tony De Marco started dancing in Burlesque and moved into Vaudeville. This would eventually lead him to musicals and later movies. The most famous three were actually really married to Tony. Antonio first married Nina Kroner, then Renée, then Sally.

   -Renée and Tony were divorced in 1939 and were the most famous of all his partners before his teaming with Sally (a ballet dancer.) Renee has a son named Kevin Coates. Sally started dancing with Tony in 1941 and married him in 1944. Tony and Sally would become the most famous of all the teaming's. Sally DeMarco danced in the movie "Gone with the Wind," portraying

Vivian Leigh in all the non close up shots of Vivian dancing, as Vivian couldn't dance.

   -All three De Marco's were one of the most successful ballroom exhibition teams along with Veloz and Yolanda and Marge and Gower Champion. They appeared with Ginger Rogers in the Broadway play "Girl Crazy" in 1930.--

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring

Buffalo, NY (Tony) 1/1/1898 - 11/14/1965 Nina, Sally, Renee n/a
Montreal, Quebec, Canada? (Renee) N/A Tony, Paul Coates, Joe Cassidy Kevin Coates
 

Dance Types

Dance Partners

Music Titles

Waltz Ernest Belcher Swingin' Sisters In The Air (LP)
Adagio / Acrobatic Theodore Kosloff A Journey to a Star (w/ Wilson)
Tango Virginia Wilson No Love, No Nothin (w/ Wilson)
Rumba       Paducah (w/ Wilson)
Mambo            
Ballet            
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Stage

1934 - Persian Room, NY Apollo Theater (1924) 1914 - Hands Up
      Broadhurst Theater (1940) 1924 - George White's Scandals
      Hollywood Theater (1941) 1929 - Music Box Revue
      Imperial Theater (1935) 1930 - Girl Crazy
            1932 - Hot-Cha!
            1935 - Jubilee! (Chor)
            1940s - Slap Happy (Tony & Renee)
            1940 - Boys and Girls Together (Renee)
            1941 - Banjo Eyes
            Eisenhower's Inauguration Ball (Sally)
 

Films

Television

Publications

1935 - In Caliente' (w/Sally) n/a 8/1935 - Vanity Fair Magazine
$1938 - The Shining Hour (& Chor)       4/1944 - Movie Life Magazine
$1939 - Gone with the Wind (Sally)        
1943 - Crazy House (w/Sally)        
1943 - Gangs All Here (w/ Virginia Wilson)        
1944 - Greenwich Village (w/Sally)        
1953 - Sword Of Venus (Renee) [ DVD]        
NOTE:Thanks to Beth (Sally's niece) for added information and Pics on Tony and Sally DeMarco.
Also, Paul Rogers is looking for anyone with info on his relative -- Renee, E-mail him here.
October 19, 2005
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