'In the 1947 film Down To Earth, Rita Hayworth plays Terpsichore, who is annoyed and visits Earth
to change a musical that depicts her in a bad light.
In the 1980 film Xanadu, Olivia Newton-John plays Kira, the main love interest of the film's protagonist, Sonny. It is eventually revealed that
Kira is actually Terpsichore in disguise
sent to inspire the creation of Xanadu, a legendary nightclub.
She is forbidden from falling in love with mortals, so once the nightclub is set to open, she departs Earth having fulfilled her duty.
However, she successfully convinces her father, Zeus, to allow her and her eight sisters, the Muses, to perform at the nightclub for its opening night.
Once the exciting performance concludes, they disappear in bursts of light.
The ending of the film is somewhat ambiguous, as Sonny finally meets a different woman in the club who looks exactly like Kira, implying that Zeus may have allowed her to live as a mortal with Sonny, while all the other Muses returned home to Mount Helicon."
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Terpsichore
(/tərpˈsɪkəriː/; Ancient Greek: Τερψιχόρη, "delight in dancing")
is one of the nine Muses and goddess of dance and chorus.
She lends her name to the word "terpsichorean", which means "of or relating to dance".
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