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Taina Elg dead at 95: Tony nominee and co-star of Gene Kelly passes away


Taina Elg, a glamorous star to MGM in the 1950s has died in her native Finland . She was 95.

Elg also starred in Imitation General, a World War II comedy co-starring Glen Ford and Red Buttons. She starred as a schoolteacher who gets involved with a British diplomat to decipher and break up a sinister plot against England in the 1959 big screen release. Elg was studying ballet in London where she was discovered by American film producer Edwin H. Knopf and signed to a seven-year contract by MGM; Circa 1957

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