Marc Breaux
Marc Breaux was a choreographer known for his work on the renowned television variety show The Hollywood Palace and the movie musicals Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Breaux, who often worked in collaboration with his wife Dee Dee Wood, was born November 3, 1924, in Carencro, Louisana. He studied dance at what is now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette before serving as a Navy pilot during World War II.
Marc Breaux was a choreographer known for his work on the renowned television variety show The Hollywood Palace and the movie musicals Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Breaux, who often worked in collaboration with his wife Dee Dee Wood, was born November 3, 1924, in Carencro, Louisana. He studied dance at what is now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette before serving as a Navy pilot during World War II.
In 1948, he was cast as a dancer in the Broadway musical Look, Ma, I'm Dancin’! He met Wood when they both performed on a television show in New York hosted by jazzman Stan Kenton. They married in 1955 and the following year they appeared in the Broadway musical Li'l Abner, choreographed by Michael Kidd, who became a major influence on Breaux’s athletic approach to dance.
In 1961 he choreographed an episode of The United States Steel Hour, and the folowing year contributed to The Andy Williams Show. Perhaps his most enduring TV credit was The Hollywood Palace, a variety series that aired from 1964 to 1970. He and Wood, who later divorced and choreographed on their own, also worked on several variety specials.
His other feature films included Huckleberry Finn, The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella and Sextette.
He died November 19, 2013, in Mesa, Arizona.
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