Allegra Kent [own] parents. She borrowed a neighbor's working papers and took a job at twelve. By fourteen, she was teaching ballroom dancing at night in someone's private home, mostly to Japanese men". Born in Santa Monica, Kent studied with Bronislava Nijinska and Carmelita Maracci before joining the School of American Ballet. She discovered music and dance at the age of 7 and enjoyed both, but she was 11 before she took her first ballet lesson. She had completely flat feet as a little girl and consulted a doctor, who prescribed wedges in her shoes to give her arches. She then began
Salvatore Allegra composed a number of musical scores for films, among which "Amori e veleni" (1950) with Amedeo Nazzari and directed by Giorgio Simonelli. He died in Florence. Salvatore Allegra Salvatore Allegra (1898–1993) was an Italian composer. Allegra was born in Palermo. He composed a number of operettas in the 1920s, including "Il gatto in cantina" (1930), which is still performed sometimes, passing then to operas, such as the dark "verista" drama "Ave Maria", which was first staged at La Scala in 1934, which was followed by "I Viandanti" (1936), "Il Medico suo malgrado" (1938) and "Romulus" (1952). He completed and edited