Nita Bieber - Early Life

Early Life

Dancer and actress Nita Bieber was born in July 1926. Her father was an accomplished piano player, and her mother Callie was a great dancer. Her younger brother Rodney and her three younger sisters all became accomplished dancers too. Linda did ballet, Wanda played the harp, and Wilda Taylor continues even now as an actor and comedienne. Nita started performing in public at age 5, when she did a decorous fan dance in a long, pink dress. After her graduation from Hollywood High School, she traveled as a dancer with a USO troupe and then joined the Jack Cole Dancers for a nine-month tour of the U.S., during which she became very proficient in both dancing and cooking. In 1950, when she was 24, Nita was diagnosed with polio; her doctors all said she would never walk again. But with the help of her mother, she recovered from the disease and within a year was back on stage, dancing and acting.

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