Born 1917 in Amsterdam, New York, American actress and dancer Lucille Bremer danced with the Philadelphia Opera Company at age 12. Once in New York, she danced in various specialty acts, most notably in the 1939 New York World’s Fair “American Jubilee”.
Bremer made her screen debut to excellent notices in director Vincente Minnelli’s smash hit Technicolor musical Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) as Rose Smith, Judy Garland’s older sister, and followed this with a starring role opposite Fred Astaire in the musical fable Yolanda and the Thief (1945).
Her last major film musical was the lavish Jerome Kern biopic Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), in which Bremer has some good dramatic scenes and dances with Van Johnson. After this, MGM began to lose interest in promoting her. After a minor dramatic film at MGM, Dark Delusion (1947), she was loaned to Eagle-Lion in 1948 for her final three films. Bremer played her last starring role in the film noir Behind Locked Doors (1948).
Bremer died in 1996 from a heart attack at age 79. Take a look at these gorgeous photos to see the beauty of young Lucille Bremer in the 1930s and 1940s.
Nice photos. The gal in the fourth from bottom pic is Ann Sheridan. Great pic of her.
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