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Stage Name |
Birth Name |
| Mary
Raye |
Mary (Aloisio) Raye Naldi |
| Mario
Naldi |
Mario
Nordio |
| Raye
and Naldi |
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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 Partnership going, they were dancing
together ever since. They became an outstanding
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exhibition
ballroom dance team and had been dancing in most of the upper-crest
Night Clubsand hotels internationally as well as performed for
the crowned heads of Europe with a command performance for the
Queen of England..
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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.
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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 |
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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) |
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| Copacabana
(NY) |
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| Gran
Casino Nacional (Havana) |
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| Latin
Quarters (NYC & Chicago) |
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| Monte
Carlo (Deauville) |
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| Nice
Cannes (London) |
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| Persian
Room-Plaza (NY) |
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| Plaza
Hotel's Rainbow Room (NY) |
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| Ritz
Carlton (N.Y.) |
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| Royal
Palm (FL.) |
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| Surf
Club (FL.) |
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| Trocadero
Ballroom (L.A.) |
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| Waldorf-Rainbow
Room |
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Films |
Television |
Publications |
| $1925
- Cobra (DVD) |
n/a |
9/1926
- Photoplay Magazine |
| 1943
- Artists and Models |
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| 1961
- A Very Private Affair |
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| NOTE:Special
thanks to Raye and Naldi Relative Bobby
Burgess for some additional info. |
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