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"Allegra Kent" is an American ballet dancer and actress.
Born to Jewish parents, Harry Herschel and Shirley (née Weissman) Cohen, Kent grew up in a dysfunctional environment. In Once a Dancer: An Autobiography, she describes her Texas/Texan father ("who liked to substitute 'Cowboy' for Herschel") as having "a gambler's soul and a restless nature" (at pgs 5, 7). She describes her Wisznice (present-day Poland)-born immigrant mother as feeling "neither European nor American; she was ashamed of her [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" (at pg. 6).
Born in Santa Monica, California/Santa Monica, Kent studied with Bronislava Nijinska and Carmelita Maracci before joining the School of American Ballet. She had completely flat feet as a little girl and after seeing a doctor, he personally prescribed wedges in her shoes to give her arches. After doing so, she started taking ballet.
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