Arthur Murray

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Arthur Murray

American dancing instructor

Also known as: Arthur Murray Teichman

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Byname of:: Arthur Murray Teichman

Born:: April 4, 1895, New York, N.Y., U.S.

Died:: March 3, 1991, Honolulu, Hawaii (aged 95)

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Arthur Murray (born April 4, 1895, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died March 3, 1991, Honolulu, Hawaii) was an American ballroom-dancing instructor and entrepreneur who established a successful mail-order dance-instruction business and, by 1965, more than 350 franchised dance studios, including nearly 50 in foreign countries. The son of an Austrian-born immigrant baker in Manhattan’s East Harlem, Murray learned ballroom dancing from a girlfriend and from instruction given by the Educational Alliance. He quit his job in an architect’s office, took further lessons at Castle Hall, the dancing school of Vernon and Irene Castle, and soon became a member of the faculty, ...(100 of 292 words)

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