Alex Romero, 94, Elvis’s Film Choreographer
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Alex Romero, a dancer and choreographer who directed Elvis Presley’s dancing for the movie “Jailhouse Rock” and worked with Presley on three other films, died September 8 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund home. He was 94.
A gracefully athletic dancer, Romero started in movies in the early 1940s. He was a featured dancer in the 1949 film version of “On the Town,” the 1949, starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra.
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