Marge Champion Autographs
Marjorie Celeste Champion (née Belcher; September 2, 1919 – October 21, 2020) was an American dancer and actress. At fourteen, she was hired as a dance model for Walt Disney Studios animated films. Later, she performed as an actress and dancer in film musicals, and in 1957 had a television show based on song and dance. She also did creative choreography for liturgy, and served as a dialogue and movement coach for the 1978 TV miniseries, The Awakening Land, set in the late 18th century in the Ohio Valley.
Champion was born in Los Angeles on September 2, 1919. Her father, Ernest Belcher, was a dance director who taught Shirley Temple, Betty Grable, Ramon Novarro, Cyd Charisse, Fay Wray and Joan Crawford, as well as Champion's future husband Gower Champion; her mother was Gladys Lee Baskette (née Rosenberg). Champion had an older half sister, Lina Basquette, who began acting in 1916 in silent films. Lina was the daughter of her mother's first husband, Frank Baskette, who died by suicide. Champion and Basquette's maternal grandfather, Lazarus Rosenberg, was Jewish.
Champion began dancing at an early age as her sister had done. She started as a child under the instruction of her father. She studied exclusively with her father from age five until she left for New York. She credited her good health and long career to her father's teaching principles: careful, strict progression of activity, emphasis on correct alignment, precise placement of body, attention to detail and to the totality of dynamics and phrasing. Her first dance partner was Louis Hightower. In 1930, she made her debut in the Hollywood Bowl at age 11 in the ballet "Carnival in Venice". By age twelve, she became a ballet instructor at her father's studio. Champion played Tina in the Hollywood High School operetta The Red Mill. She also sang in the Hollywood High School Girls' Senior Glee Club and graduated in 1936.
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Current items with a signature of Marge Champion
These are the most current items with a signature of Marge Champion that were listed on eBay and on other online stores - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Marge Champion autographed program page 1966 The Women Kenley Players | $30.00 |  |
| Marge Champion autographed program page 1966 The Women Kenley Players | $30.00 | |
Traded items with a signature of Marge Champion
The most expensive item with a signature of Marge Champion (2003 Upper Deck Disney Snow White Marge Champion #SW3 Signed Auto PSA 8) was sold in September 2025 for $999.95 while the cheapest item (Marge Champion Signed 8x11 Magazine Page Photo Hollywood Celebrity) found a new owner for $0.01 in December 2024. The month with the most items sold (3) was January 2019 with an average selling price of $4.84 for an autographed item of Marge Champion. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in April 2025 with $157.50 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was June 2015. In average, an autographed item from Marge Champion is worth $11.05.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Marge Champion were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Dancer Marge Champion Autograph Letter Signed | $30.00 |  |
| FOLLIES SIGNED PLAYBILL MARNI NIXON MARGE CHAMPION BETTY GARRETT POLLY BERGEN | $59.99 | |
| FOLLIES SIGNED PLAYBILL MARNI NIXON MARGE CHAMPION BETTY GARRETT POLLY BERGEN | $59.99 | |
| GOWER CHAMPION - SIGNED + PHOTOGRAPH - DANCER - CHOREOGRAPHER - MARGE CHAMPION | $157.50 | |
| GOWER CHAMPION - SIGNED + PHOTOGRAPH - DANCER - CHOREOGRAPHER - MARGE CHAMPION | $157.50 | |
| Marge Champion - 1919-2020 (Dancer/Choreographer) Signed photo | $7.50 | |
| Marge Champion - 1919-2020 (Dancer/Choreographer) Signed photo | $7.50 | |
| Marge Champion 1919-2020 US actress dancer autograph signed 5"x7" photo | $48.99 | |
| Marge Champion 1919-2020 US actress dancer autograph signed 5"x7" photo | $48.99 | |
| Marge Champion Dancer Actress Autographed 8.5x11 Photo w/COA WWE52-306 | $39.99 | |
| Marge Champion Dancer Actress Autographed 8.5x11 Photo w/COA WWE52-306 | $39.99 | |
| Marge Champion SIGNED AUTO AUTOGRAPH 8x10 Photo BAS STICKER COA "To Paul" | $47.98 | |
| Marge Champion SIGNED AUTO AUTOGRAPH 8x10 Photo BAS STICKER COA "To Paul" | $47.98 | |
 | Signed 1st edition Before The Parade Passes By HCDJ Marge Champion & John Gilvey | $40.00 | |
| Signed 1st edition Before The Parade Passes By HCDJ Marge Champion & John Gilvey | $40.00 | |
