Geneva Sawyer (1910-65) moved to California with her older sister Frances and their mother in the late 1920s. Both girls had started dance training at a young age.
She made her debut as a screen dancer in Fox’s weird It’s Great to Be Alive (1933), and in the same year she and her sister were chorus girls in MGM’s Dancing Lady.
Sawyer only made about a dozen screen appearances, but had much greater impact as a dance director, mostly at Twentieth Century-Fox, working with Shirley Temple on a number of her pictures, and on Down Argentine Way (1940). She also choreographed the dances in non-musicals such as The Mark of Zorro (1940) and A Yank in the RAF (1941).
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