Harry Pilcer

Harry Pilcer (April 29, 1885 – January 14, 1961)[1] was an American actor, dancer, choreographer and lyricist.

Harry Pilcer
Harry Pilcer with Gaby Deslys
Born(1885-04-29)April 29, 1885
New York City, New York
DiedJanuary 14, 1961(1961-01-14) (aged 75)
Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France
OccupationActor, dancer
Years active1907–1946
Partner(s)Gaby Deslys

Biography

Pilcer is mainly remembered for his association with French dancer and singer Gaby Deslys who may have been his wife.[2] According to Fred Astaire's autobiography, Pilcer was a fellow student at Claude Alvienne's stage dancing and dramatic school in New York in 1905.[3] Pilcer and Deslys appeared in four Broadway musicals together Vera Violetta (1911), The Honeymoon Express (1913), The Belle of Bond Street (1914) and Stop Look! Listen! (1916). He composed Deslys's waltz The Gaby Glide. As a dance team Pilcer and Deslys were contemporaries to Vernon and Irene Castle, Florence Walton and "Maurice", Dorothy Dickson and husband Carl Hyson, and Genevieve Lyon and her husband John Murray Anderson.[4] Pilcer and Deslys would probably have been the top dance team in both America and Europe had not World War I intervened and Deslys's death during the influenza pandemic in 1920. Pilcer also danced with Mistinguett and Teddy Bernard. After 1922 Pilcer ran a school of dancing in Paris.[5] Pilcer co-starred with Deslys in her 1915 silent film Her Triumph (1915).

Pilcer died at Cannes of a heart attack January 14, 1961.[6]

Filmography
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References
Gaby and Harry performing Gaby Glide, 1913
  1. Who Was Who on Screen, 3rd edition, p. 582 by Evelyn Mack Truitt c. 1983
  2. Silent Film Necrology 2nd edition, p.421 by Eugene Michael Vazzana c.2001
  3. Steps in Time by Fred Astaire, HarperCollins, c.1989, p.17
  4. Pictorial History of the American Theatre: 1860-1985 by Daniel Blum, page 149, c.1985 (updated edition)
  5. Who Was Who in the Theatre: 1912-1976 page 1,917, vol. 3 I-P, originally published annually by John Parker; this 1976 edition compiled by Gale Research
  6. Truit, p.582
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