As per our current Database, Alex Romero has been died on 8 September, 2007 at Woodland Hills, California, USA.
When Alex Romero die, Alex Romero was 94 years old.
| Popular As | Alex Romero |
| Occupation | Miscellaneous Crew |
| Age | 94 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | August 20, 1913 (San Antonio, Texas, USA) |
| Birthday | August 20 |
| Town/City | San Antonio, Texas, USA |
| Nationality | USA |
Alex Romero’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Alex Romero was born in the Year of the Ox. Another of the powerful Chinese Zodiac signs, the Ox is steadfast, solid, a goal-oriented leader, detail-oriented, hard-working, stubborn, serious and introverted but can feel lonely and insecure. Takes comfort in friends and family and is a reliable, protective and strong companion. Compatible with Snake or Rooster.
Noted choreographer and dancer, Alex Romero was born Alexander Bernard Quiroga, son of Mexican general and wealthy politician, don Miguel Quiroga. His father and thirteen of his twenty-three brothers were killed during the siege of Monterrey, and his mother, three months pregnant with Alex at the time, escaped to the United States with the family's one daughter and gave birth to Alex in San Antonio, Texas.
Three of Alex's other brothers, who had survived the Revolution, found their way to the United States and eventually formed a Spanish dance act, adopting the stage name Romero because they were told Quiroga would be too hard for American audiences to pronounce.
When he was eleven, Alex's only sister died of tuberculosis. Alex's brothers concerned over the distraught state of their mother, had her and Alex join them on the vaudeville circuit. Alex did not originally perform with his brothers.
He had no training in dance at all. "Pup," as he was called, simply watched his brothers from the wings every night. One day, one of his brothers, John, came into the theater and heard someone tap dancing on the stage.
He snuck up and found that it was Alex. Asked where he had learned to tap dance, Alex replied that he had just made up his own steps after listening to the rhythms of the various black dancers he had seen in other vaudeville acts.
Alex was asked to join the Romero's dance act and to teach his other brothers to tap. He was fifteen years old. The Romero brothers toured throughout the United States and also for five years in Europe.
During this time Alex's future wife, Faun, traveled from the United States to be with him, and they married in 1936 while the group was on tour in Norway. The vaudeville act broke up 1939, when World War II started, and Alex decided to leave Europe because Faun was pregnant with his first child, Melinda.
Upon returning to the United States, Alex auditioned for Jack Cole and became part of his contract dance team at Columbia, performing with Cole for two years. With the birth of Romero's second daughter Judy, he left Cole's troupe.
He began dancing in the movies and performed in such films as The Thrill of Brazil, Time Out for Rhythm, Texas Carnival, Tars and Spars, and An American in Paris. In On the Town, he was featured as one of the three dancing sailors.
Alex began assisting some of the great film choreographers, such as Michael Kidd on Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Hermes Pan and Fred Astaire on Barkleys of Broadway, Busby Berkley on Small Town Girl, and Gene Kelly on American in Paris and On the Town.
He also assisted on The Bandwagon, Annie Get Your Gun, Kiss Me Kate, Les Girls, Showboat, The Belle of New York, and Take Me Out to the Ballgame. His first solo choreography came when he was assisting Robert Alton on Words and Music (1948).
Alton asked Alex to collaborate on a number with Gene Kelly called "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue." In the same film, Alex was solo choreographer for two numbers that have since become classics - "Thou Swell," with June Allyson and the Blackburn Twins and "Lady is a Tramp" with Lena Horne.
Known for his clever, humorous, inventive style, and brilliant use of props, Alex began working full-time as a choreographer. He created dances for Janet Leigh in The Red Danube (1949), Bob Fosse and Debbie Reynolds in The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953), Russ Tamblyn in Fastest Gun Alive (1956), Tom Thumb (1958), and The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962), Doris Day in Love Me or Leave Me (1955), and Susan Hayward in I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955).
Other credits include The Prodigal (1955), The Gazebo (1959), Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962), The George Raft Story (1962), The Stripper (1963), Love at First Bite (1979), Zorro, the Gay Blade (1981), among numerous others.
In 1957, he choreographed "Jailhouse Rock" for Elvis Presley, conceiving the sets and costumes, and fighting with studio executives to include the rock and roll number in the film. He became close friends with Elvis and went on to choreograph three more films for him
