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Maria Gambarelli
Person

Maria Gambarelli

Specialty
Acting
Birth
April 7, 1900 · 89 years
Death
February 4, 1990
Origin
La Spezia, Liguria, Italy

Technical Alias

Gamby

Professional Trajectory

Maria Gambarelli was an Italian/American dancer and actress. She was one of the greatest dancers to have been trained by the Metropolitan Opera ballet school. Enrolled in the school in 1908 at the age seven, she first appeared in a professional production in the Met's 1914 "Aida" playing a slave girl.

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