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Murray, Arthur; Murray, Kathryn Arthur Murray and Louise Brooks demonstrating the “Recovery Dance”, a dance Murray dedicated to Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Murray, Arthur; Murray, Kathryn Arthur Murray dancing with his wife, Kathryn Murray, in 1925.

Arthur Murray

American dancing instructor
Also known as: Arthur Murray Teichman
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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...

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