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Larri Thomas

Dancer/actress

Born - 23 January 1932, Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA
Died - 20 October 2013

Leggy blonde dancer, strutting her stuff in films from the age of 20. Born Lida Thomas and spotted by film scouts while working in TV commercials, she made her debut in Road to Bali (1952) and was steadily employed thereafter, often as a background dancer in classic musicals. Sharp eyes will spot her in The One Piece Bathing Suit (1952), House of Wax (1953), Love Me Or Leave Me (1955), Artists and Models (1955), The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956), Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956), The Pajama Game (1957), South Pacific (1958), Ask Any Girl (1959), Who Was That Lady? (1960), The Music Man (1962), Mary Poppins (1964), The Sound of Music (1965), Frankie and Johnny (1966) and The Silencers (1966). She then went into TV, dancing on music specials. Much later, she appeared in the films In God We Tru$t (1980) and Earth Girls Are Easy (1988), her last. Married first to actor John Bromfield, but latterly to dancer Bruce Hoy, she died following a fall.