Vera-Ellen. She was reputed to have the "smallest waist in Hollywood".
My aunt told me Vera-Ellen suffered from anorexia...not well known about, back then.
White Christmas is my all time fave...love the singing, but really love all of the amazing dancing by Vera and Danny Kaye :)
As I understand it, she went nuts over an (imagined) weight problem, became anorexic/bolemic (?) like Karen Carpenter. and wound up starving herself to death - like Karen Carpenter.