Muriel Bentley

[3][4][5] Bentley was a member of the Ballet Theatre of New York with Jerome Robbins, Alicia Alonso, Nora Kaye, Harold Lang, Janet Reed, and others.

[2] Her Broadway appearances included roles in Interplay (1946), Fancy Free (1946),[2][6] Call Me Madam (1950),[7][8] and West Side Story (1957 to 1959).

She had important roles in several Agnes de Mille ballets, including Tally-Ho (1945)[10] and Fall River Legend (1948), and in Pillar of Fire and Shadow of the Wind (1948) by Antony Tudor.

[4][11] Of her 1945 appearance in Tally-Ho!, The New York Times critic John Martin wrote that "Muriel Bentley practically walks away with the show, as the hilariously vulgar 'lady'".

[3][4] She wrote about the early years of the American Ballet Theatre for the Los Angeles Times in 1979.