Barrie Chase

Barrie Chase is an American dancer and actress who began ballet training as a young child in New York, studying with Adolph Bolm and Maria Bekefi before moving into Hollywood musicals. In the early 1950s she danced on live television shows including The Chrysler Shower of Stars and The Colgate Comedy Hour. While assisting choreographer Jack Cole at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she was chosen by Fred Astaire as his dancing partner for An Evening with Fred Astaire, and she appeared with him in four television specials between 1958 and 1968. Her film work included chorus roles in musicals such as Hans Christian Andersen (1952), White Christmas (1954), Daddy Long Legs (1955), Silk Stockings (1957), and Les Girls (1957). She later took dramatic parts as a victim in Cape Fear (1962), a dancing character in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and Farida in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965). She also appeared on television in Bonanza and Mr. Terrific.