Ballets Russes dancer who appeared in films including Seven Brides for Seven BrothersMarc Platt was one of the first Americans to join the Ballets Russes, and at the time of his death, aged 100, among the very last survivors. Tall and loose-limbed, with red hair and freckles, he must have seemed an unlikely addition to the ranks of the largely Russian company. But when Michel Fokine saw Platoff as he had been hastil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:34AM on April 9, 2014