Ballet legend Dame Margot Fonteyn dies of cancer at 71

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: February 22, 1991| Author: Burt A. Folkart | Copyright information

Dame Margot Fonteyn, the seemingly ageless prima ballerina whose infectious smile and grace thrilled audiences for 45 years, died Thursday in a Panama City hospital of the cancer she had fought for years. She was 71.

Dame Margot had lived on a beachfront ranch in western Panama since the 1950s. Her husband, political leader Robert Arias, was paralyzed in a 1964 assassination attempt and died in 1989. The dancer had been in and out of hospitals in Panama and Houston.

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