Robbins Family History & Genealogy

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Issac Robbins was married to Mary (Deborde) Robbins. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Issac Robbins.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Karen Lynn Robbins.

Ronnie Ray Robbins was born on August 21, 1942, and died at age 74 years old on January 19, 2017 at Washington, USA in Washington United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ronnie Ray Robbins.

Mary Nora (Robbins) Cline was born on March 4, 1892 in Tazewell County, Virginia United States. She was in a relationship with William George Cline, and had children Maude Cline, Grace Lelia (Cline) Glintborg, Dorathy Viola Cline, Lucille Pearl (Cline) Buffington, Margaret (Cline) Glidden, Carrie Mae (Cline) Gerdine, John Joseph Cline, Robert William Cline Sr, Betty J Walrath, Charles F Cline, and Charles Franklin Cline. Mary Cline died at age 73 years old in 1965 in Omaha, Douglas County, NE. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mary Nora (Robbins) Cline.

Geneva Estelle (Sositko) Robbins was born on November 10, 1917 in Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio United States, and died at age 96 years old in 2013. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Geneva (Sositko) Robbins.

Dawn S (Robbins) Schenk was born on October 11, 1967 at San Pedro in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California United States to Lonnie Elaine Simpson and Ronnie Ray Robbins, and has a sister Veronica Elaine Robbins. She married Douglas Carey Schenk. She would also marry Jack S Westerhout, and they had a child Danielle Nicole Westerhout. Dawn's partner was Michael Donovan Rahja, and they had children Dylan Donovan Rahja and Cody Michael Rahja. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Dawn S (Robbins) Schenk.

Jerome Robbins Born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz October 11, 1918 Manhattan, New York City, U.S. Died July 29, 1998 (aged 79) Manhattan, New York City, U.S. Occupation Theater producer, director, dancer, choreographer Years active 1937–1998 Awards Full list Jerome Robbins (October 11, 1918 – July 29, 1998) was an American choreographer, director, dancer, and theater producer who worked in classical ballet, on stage, film, and television. Among his numerous stage productions were On the Town, Peter Pan, High Button Shoes, The King and I, The Pajama Game, Bells Are Ringing, West Side Story, Gypsy, and Fiddler on the Roof. Robbins was a five-time Tony Award-winner and a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors. He received two Academy Awards, including the 1961 Academy Award for Best Director with Robert Wise for West Side Story. A documentary about Robbins‘ life and work, Something to Dance About, featuring excerpts from his journals, archival performance and rehearsal footage, and interviews with Robbins and his colleagues, premiered on PBS in 2009 and won both an Emmy and a Peabody Award the same year. Early life Robbins was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz in the Jewish Maternity Hospital at 270 East Broadway on Manhattan's Lower East Side – a neighborhood populated by many immigrants. He was the son of Lena (Rips) and Harry Rabinowitz. The Rabinowitz family lived in a large apartment house at 51 East 97th Street at the northeast corner of Madison Avenue. Known as "Jerry" to those close to him, Robbins was given the middle name Wilson reflecting his parents' patriotic enthusiasm for the then-president, Woodrow Wilson. In the early 1920s, the Rabinowitz family moved to Weehawken, New Jersey. His father and uncle opened the Comfort Corset Company in Union City. The family had many show business connections, including vaudeville performers and theater owners. In the 1940s, their name was legally changed to Robbins. Robbins began studying modern dance in high school with Alys [CK] Bentley, who encouraged her pupils to improvise steps to music. Said Robbins later: "What gave me immediately was the absolute freedom to make up my own dances without inhibition or doubts." After graduation, he went to study chemistry at New York University (NYU) but dropped out after a year for financial reasons, and to pursue dance full-time. He joined the company of Senya Gluck Sandor, a leading exponent of expressionistic modern dance; it was Sandor who recommended that he change his name to Robbins. Sandor also encouraged him to take ballet, which he did with Ella Daganova; in addition, he studied Spanish dancing with Helen Veola; Asian dance with Yeichi Nimura; and dance composition with Bessie Schonberg. While a member of Sandor's company Robbins made his stage debut with the Yiddish Art Theater, in a small role in [The Brothers Ashkenazi]. Career 1930s and 40s Robbins in Three Virgins and a Devil, 1941 In 1937 Robbins made the first of many appearances as a dancer at Camp Tamiment, a resort in the Poconos known for its weekly Broadway-style revues; he also began dancing in the choruses of such Broadway shows as Great Lady and Keep Off the Grass, both choreographed by George Balanchine. Robbins had also begun creating dances for Tamiment's Revues, some comic (featuring the talents of Imogene Coca and Carol Channing), and some dramatic, topical, and controversial. One such dance, later also performed in New York City at the 92nd Street Y, was Strange Fruit, set to the song performed by Billie Holiday. In 1940, Robbins joined Ballet Theatre (later known as American Ballet Theatre). From 1941 through 1944, Robbins was a soloist with the company, gaining notice for his Hermes in Helen of Troy, the title role in Petrouchka, the Youth in Agnes de Mille's Three Virgins and a Devil, and Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet; and coming under the influence of the choreographers Michel Fokine, Antony Tudor, and George Balanchine. Robbins created and performed in Fancy-Free, a ballet about sailors on liberty, at the Metropolitan Opera as part of the Ballet Theatre season in 1944. One of Fancy-Free's inspirations was Paul Cadmus' 1934 painting The Fleet's In! However, Robbins's scenario was more lighthearted than the painting. Robbins said in an interview with The Christian Science Monitor: "After seeing...Fleet's In, which I inwardly rejected though it gave me the idea of doing the ballet, I watched sailors, and girls, too, all over town." Robbins commissioned a score for the ballet from the then-unknown Leonard Bernstein and enlisted Oliver Smith as a set designer. With Fancy-Free, Robbins created a dance that integrated classic ballet, 1940s social dancing, and a screwball plotline. Later that year, Robbins conceived and choreographed On the Town (1944), a musical partly inspired by Fancy-Free, which effectively launched his Broadway career. Bernstein wrote the music and Smith designed the sets. The book and lyrics were by a team that Robbins would work with again, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and the director was the Broadway legend, George Abbott. Because Robbins, as a choreographer, insisted that his chorus reflect the racial diversity of a New York City crowd, On the Town broke the color bar on Broadway for the first time. Robbins' next musical was the jazz age fable Billion Dollar Baby (1945), and during rehearsals, for the show, an incident happened that became a part of Robbins – and Broadway – lore: the choreographer, preoccupied giving directions to the dancers, backed up onstage until he fell into the orchestra pit. Two years later, he received plaudits for his humorous Mack Sennett ballet in High Button Shoes (1947) and won his first Tony Award for choreography. That same year, Robbins would become one of the first members of New York's newly formed Actors Studio, attending classes held by founding member Robert Lewis three times a week, alongside classmates such as Marlon Brando, Maureen Stapleton, Montgomery Clift, Herbert Berghof, Sidney Lumet, and about 20 others. In 1948 he added another credit to his resume, becoming co-director as well as choreographer for Look Ma, I'm Dancin'!; and the year after that teamed with Irving Berlin to choreograph Miss Liberty. While he was forging a career on Broadway, Robbins continued to work in ballet, creating a string of inventive and stylistically diverse works including Interplay, to a score by Morton Gould, and Facsimile, to music by Leonard Bernstein, a ballet that was banned in Boston [CK]. In 1949 Robbins left Ballet Theatre to join George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein's newly formed New York City Ballet as Associate Artistic Director. Soon after that, he choreographed The Guests, a ballet about intolerance.

Connie Burnette Robbins was born to Edwin O. Robbins and Pattie A. Robbins and had two sisters Mrs. Ethel Boykin and Mrs. Marie Ellis, and one brother Jim Robbins. She married Billy Gene Carter and they had one daughter Mrs. Connie Holland and six sons: Curtis Willoughby, Billy Gene Carter Jr., Timothy M. Carter, Tracy A. Carter, Robert B. Carter and Patrick S. Carter. A copy of her obituary is below.

Jackie Lee Robbins was born on May 10, 1978. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Jackie L Howell Robbins.

Rose Elizabeth (Robbins) Osborne of Ellesmere Australia was born in 1873. She was married to Henry John Osborne in 1897, and had children Louisa (Osborne) Officer, Isabel May (Osborne) Houlden, Kathleen Steritt Osborne, Henry Osborne, Percival Robert Osborne, Emma Osborne, Samuel Osborne, Matilda Elsie (Osborne) Coombes, Jack Osborne, Edith Jean (Osborne) Freeman, and Tasman Eric Freeman. Rose Osborne died at age 61 years old on May 29, 1935 in Parkdale, City of Kingston County, VIC.

Billie Elizabeth (Robbins) Hill was born on March 24, 1919 in Holdenville, Hughes County, Oklahoma United States to David Zachary Robbins and Myrtle Myra (Miller) Robbins, and had siblings Homer Richard Robbins, Elmer Zacharias Robbins, David William Robbins, Pearl Ellen (Robbins), Velma Ruby (Robbins), Lillian Pauline (Robbins), Ray Vernon Robbins, Helena (Robbins), and Merita Viola (Robbins). She married Ralph Richard Hill, Jr and they later divorced on October 27, 1978. She married Enrique Cevallos on January 4, 1972, and they were married until Billie's death on April 19, 2009.

David and Richard were lovers.

Ruth (Rhea) Robbins was born in 1949. Ruth Robbins was in a relationship with Wendell A. Robbins, Jr., and has children Wendell A. Robbins Iii, Quincy Howard Robbins, and Sheryl Irene Robbins. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ruth (Rhea) Robbins.

Marley Elizabeth Allin Robbins was born in 2006 at Houston to Wendell A. Robbins Iii and Mary P. (Fontenot) Robbins, and has siblings Codi Alyn Robbins, Wendell A. Robbins IV, and Kendell Allyn Robbins. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Marley Elizabeth Allin Robbins.

Wendell A. Robbins Jr. was born in 1945 at Hampton, VA. Wendell Robbins was in a relationship with Ruth (Rhea) Robbins, and has children Wendell A. Robbins Iii, Quincy Howard Robbins, and Sheryl Irene Robbins. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Wendell A. Robbins, Jr..

Steven Robbins was born to Deanna M Ireland and George Robbins, and has siblings Desiree R House, Andrea Robbins, and Shannon Ireland. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Steven Robbins.

Betty Catherine (Hunsinger) Robbins was born in Aug at Berwick in Berwick, Columbia County, Pennsylvania United States. Betty Hunsinger was married to Willard C Robbins. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Betty Catherine (Hunsinger) Robbins.

George Robbins was in a relationship with Deanna M Ireland, and has children Desiree R House, Andrea Robbins, Steven Robbins, and Shannon Ireland. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember George Robbins.

Andrea Robbins was born to Deanna M Ireland and George Robbins, and has siblings Desiree R House, Steven Robbins, and Shannon Ireland. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Andrea Robbins.