Person

Platt, Marc

1913–2014

Marc Platt; b. Marcel Emile Gaston Leplat, Dec. 2, 1913, Pasadena, Calif.; d. Saturday [Mar. 29, 2014], San Rafael, Calif., aged 100; lively and versatile dancer who had standout roles onstage and in films, including in the original 1943 Broadway production of Oklahoma! and as one of the virile young woodsmen seeking spouses in the 1954 film musical Seven brides for seven brothers; before he was Marc Platt he was Marc Platoff; his name was Russianized when, as a young dancer training in Seattle in the 1930s, he was accepted as a member of the Ballet russe de Monte Carlo