Foster Fitz-Simons (born Albert Foster Fitz-Simons on 30 June 1912 in Atlanta, Georgia; died 16 April 1991 in Raleigh, North Carolina) was an American dancer, novelist, and teacher. He was a member of the first all-male dance company in the US, Ted Shawn's Male Dancers. He left Ted Shawn's company to form a partnership with Miriam Winslow; they performed together for many years, appearing with the Boston, Detroit, and Toronto Symphonies as well as at the Guild Theatre in

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and at the

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. They toured

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for five months in 1941. Fitz-Simons' most notable work as a writer was his

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novel '' Bright Leaf'' (loosely based on the Duke family and their place in the North Carolina tobacco industry), which became a film starring

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and

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1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 crashes in a snowstorm. All 19 ...

. Fitz-Simons taught for many years in the Department Dramatic Art at the

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.http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=85996 NY Times review of ''Bright Leaf'' by Bosley Crowther

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External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20041126101515/http://www.bama.ua.edu/~dhughes/flamessite/connections/Fitz/fitzsimmons.html * http://www.danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/dance/ted-shawns-men-dancers American male dancers 20th-century American novelists 1912 births 1991 deaths American male novelists University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American dancers {{US-novelist-1910s-stub