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Picture of Historic Dancers Mary Raye and Naldi aka Mario Nordio. Ballroom dance History and Exhibition dancers

Stage Name

Birth Name

Mary Raye Mary (Aloisio) Raye Naldi
Mario Naldi Mario Nordio
Raye and Naldi  

   - Mary Raye originally danced with Valentino in a movie entitled the "Cobra." She became very famous for her dancing role with Rudolph Valentino.

--Later, Raye teamed up with Mario (Nordio) Naldi while dancing together in an act in Europe and decided to keep the

Dance Partners

hip going, they were dancing together ever since. They became an outstanding

Photos

exhibition ballroom dance team and had been dancing in most of the upper-crest

Night Clubs

and hotels internationally as well as performed for the crowned heads of Europe with a command performance for the Queen of England..

   - Aug. 10, 1948. WJZ-TV (WABC-TV)* New York NY, ch. 7, 7 p.m. The first WABC broadcast originated from the Palace Theater on Broadway with a four-hour show, one of the acts was Raye and Naldi. Performed for fifty-two straight weeks in a row at the Plaza Hotel.

Mario died in Florida in 1988 and after his death, Mary moved to New Jersey to live with family, where she finally died in Barneget, NJ in 2003.

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring

New Orleans, LA. (Mary) 3/14/1909-6/23/2003 Mario Nordio n/a
Venice, Italy (Mario) 11/1/1901-3/8/1988 Mary Raye      

Dance Types

Dance Partners

Music Titles

Ballet Mae Murray  n/a 
Ballroom Rudolph Valentino      
Fox-Trot            
Tango            
Whirlwind Waltz            
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Stage

Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe 44th St Theater 1941 - The Silver Screen
Chez-Paree (Chicago) Radio City Music Hall 1941 - Crazy with Heat
Coconut Grove (L.A.) Roxy Theater (N.Y)      
Copacabana (NY)            
Gran Casino Nacional (Havana)            
Latin Quarters (NYC & Chicago)            
Monte Carlo (Deauville)            
Nice Cannes (London)            
Persian Room-Plaza (NY)            
Plaza Hotel's Rainbow Room (NY)            
Ritz Carlton (N.Y.)            
Royal Palm (FL.)            
Surf Club (FL.)            
Trocadero Ballroom (L.A.)            
Waldorf-Rainbow Room            
 

Films

Television

Publications

$1925 - Cobra (DVD) n/a 9/1926 - Photoplay Magazine
1943 - Artists and Models            
1961 - A Very Private Affair            
NOTE:Special thanks to Raye and Naldi Relative Bobby Burgess for some additional info.
September 23, 2005
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