Background
Kaye was born Nora Koreff in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrant parents Louise (1895-1973) and Gregory Joseph Koreff (1893-1976).
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Kaye was born Nora Koreff in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrant parents Louise (1895-1973) and Gregory Joseph Koreff (1893-1976).
Studied with, Michael Fokine, Metropolitan Opera Ballet School.
Called the Duse of Dance after the acclaimed actress Eleonora Duse. She also worked in films as a choreographer and producer and performed on Broadway. In 1936, she joined the American Ballet, directed by George Balanchine.
She worked as an assistant on the musicals I Can Get lieutenant for You Wholesale (1962), Tovarich (1963), and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965).
Kaye"s marriage to Isaac Stern in November 1948 ended in divorce the following year. The couple collaborated on several screen projects, including Goodbye, Mr.
Chips (1969), The Last of Sheila (1973), Funny Lady and The Sunshine Boys (both 1975), and The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976). Playwright and screenwriter Arthur Laurents claimed in his autobiography Original Story By (2000) that he and Kaye had an on-again, off-again romantic relationship after he was discharged from the United States. Army in 1946.
Kaye"s producing credits include The Turning Point (1977), Nijinsky (1980), Pennies from Heaven (1981) and The Secret of My Succe$s (1987).
Their gravestone is inscribed "They Loved Each Other".
She later became a member of the Radio City Music Hall corps de ballet and danced in several Broadway productions, including Giselle (1941), Antony Tudor"s Pillar of Fire (1946), and Two"s Company (1952), a revue starring Bette Davis.
Married Herbert Ross, 1959.