Rita Dallas Palmer
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Born in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada to Joseph and Laura D'Alessandro
(Dallas) on 9/1/1924. She joined the Ice Cycles which later became the
second company of the Ice Capades in 1945 as a performer. She married
Richard H. Palmer (Past President and CEO of Ice Capades, the Harlem
Globetrotters, Metromedia Technologies) in 1947 and had 2 children,
Dianne and Pattie. She continued to tour with Ice Capades until 1969
and then worked at the Ice Capades Studio as Associate Producer and
Choreographer. During her career, she a choreographer for the Ice
Capades Movies and TV shows, worked for Holiday on Ice as consultant
and was the ice skating choreographer for Snow White and the 3 Stooges.
She retired in 1976.