“It is only 8 o’clock—the sun is streaming in and God is good.”

Abstract Catherine directs dances for the 1945 Broadway musical The Firebrand of Florence and develops a close relationship with its composer, Kurt Weill. Jimmie Littlefield dies on his Zacata farm, devastating the Littlefield family. While choreographing the Broadway comedy Sweethearts, Catherine, newly divorced from Philip, meets journalist Sterling Noel. They marry and move into a penthouse apartment in Manhattan overlooking the East River. She choreographs Sonja Henie’s last American film, The Countess of Monte Cristo and becomes dance director for the Jimmy Durante television show on NBC. She dies from breast cancer in Chicago at age forty-six after finishing work on the Hollywood Ice Revue of 1952.