Gilda Gray: Gilda Gray. Actress: Aloma of the South Seas. The creator of 'the Shimmy' was a voluptuous, mischievous-eyed blonde dancer who was born Marianna Michalska in Krakow, Poland. Her parents died tragically and she was eventually adopted from an orphanage and her new parents took her to the U.S. in 1909, where she commenced her career singing in her foster-father's Chicago saloon. She then worked as a cabaret dancer in New...
Known For: Aloma of the South Seas (Aloma), Piccadilly (Mabel Greenfield), The Devil Dancer (Takla (The Devil Dancer)), Rose-Marie (Belle)