Tanya (Sugar) Geise; Dancer of ‘40s Era
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Tanya (Sugar) Geise, 71, a featured performer at Niles T. Granlund’s old Florentine Gardens during the early 1940s, the heyday of the nightclubs in Los Angeles. A dancer in the early musicals that dominated Hollywood in the 1930s, Miss Geise began in show business as a child model. In Los Angeles on Oct. 30 of the complications of emphysema.
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