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Norma Doggett, Actress in 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,' Dies at 94

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Norma Doggett, the Broadway dancer who portrayed Martha, one of the lovely ladies in the classic 1954 Stanley Donen musicalSeven Brides for Seven Brothers, has died.

She was 94. Doggett, a longtime resident of Forest Hills in New York, died May 4. On Broadway, Doggett appeared in six musicals from 1948-59, working for Irving Berlin, Jerome Robbins, Moss Hart and Joshua Logan and serving as an understudy to the likes of Ethel Merman, Florence Henderson and Allyn McLerie.

Doggett had auditioned forSeven Brideschoreographer Michael Kidd in 1953 for a job as Gwen Verdon's understudy in the Broadway musicalCan-Can, and he remembered her during casting for the MGM musical.

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