Zina Bethune Net Worth is
$300,000

Mini Biography

Lovely, lithe and light-haired Zina Bethune, noted ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher, also had a promising acting career through the later 1950s and 1960s. The native New Yorker was created on Feb 17, 1945, the child of William Charles Bethune (who died in 1950 when Zina was 5) and established actress Ivy Bethune (née Vigner) of General Medical center (1963) fame. Zina’s mom was a Russian Jewish immigrant, created in Sevastopol. Formally been trained in dance from age 6, she was students at George Balanchine’s School of American Ballet, and performed with the brand new York City Ballet mainly because a teen even though she was diagnosed at various instances with scoliosis, lymphedema and hip dysplasia. As a teenager, she appeared in a number of daytime Television dramas, including a breakthrough component (1956-1958) as the first “Robin Lang” within the serial Guiding Light (1952). As time passes, she became a member of the solid of additional soaps, including an extended running component on Like of Existence (1951) from 1965-1971 and, a long time later on, a recurring component on Santa Barbara (1984). Zina co-starred with Shirl Conway on it theatre The Doctors as well as the Nurses (1962) [greatest referred to as “The Nurses,” the series was later on entitled “The Doctors as well as the Nurses”], and received touching reviews on her behalf naive college student nurse part. She also performed the sensitive part of “Amy” in another of several Television adaptations of Louisa Might Alcott’s beloved Small Ladies (1958). As a adult, she continuing to show a formidable dramatic flair on such well-known shows as Path 66 (1960), Nude Town (1958), Gunsmoke (1955), Lancer (1968), The Invaders (1967), Crisis! (1972) and Potato chips (1977). Producing her first movie appearance among the Roosevelt children in Sunrise at Campobello (1960) starring Ralph Bellamy and Greer Garson, she didn’t make as indelible a tag in film as guaranteed, but did make semi-cult notice on her behalf shifting streetwise role opposite Harvey Keitel in Martin Scorsese’s autobiographical feature-length debut I Contact First (1967) [aka Who’s That Knocking within my Door?], a notable forerunner to his acclaimed star-maker Mean Roads (1973). Zina graced many musicals being a vocalist/dancer and made her Broadway debut at age group 11 using “Tessie” in “ONE OF THE MOST Happy Fella”. Several touring productions emerged her way by means of “Sugary Charity”, “Oklahoma!”, “Damn Yankees!”, “Carnival”, “Carousel” and “The Unsinkable Molly Dark brown”. nonmusical offerings came by means of “The Person in the marriage”, “Barefoot in the Recreation area” and “The Owl as well as the Pussycat”. In 1992, Zina came back to Broadway as an alternative in “Grand Resort” where she portrayed Russian ballerina “Elizaveta Grushinskaya”. Ms. Bethune’s supreme passion and dedication, however, has continued to be in the artwork of dance…and on many amounts. In her best, she was a highly-regarded prima ballerina. Among her many credits had been “Swan Lake”, “Le Corsair”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “Dark Swan”, “Giselle”, “Don Quixote” and “Sleeping Beauty”, not forgetting Balanchine’s very own “Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux”. A visitor artist using the Royal Danish Ballet, Nevada Dance Theater and SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Ballet Theater, she continued to create her personal New York-based business in 1969 — Zina Bethune and Business. Her career like a dance movie director and choreographer offers encompassed over 50 takes on, films, video clips and ballets. Throughout her life, she’s continued to be steadfast in her contribution to children with physical and mental disabilities. Helping them accept the artwork of dance as a way of self-expression and therapy, she was prompted by her personal physical problems diagnosed while developing up. As well as the Theatredance efficiency business she founded in 1980, she also structured Dance Outreach (right now referred to as Infinite Dreams) in 1982, which proceeds to enroll handicapped small children in dance-related actions throughout Southern California.

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