Karen Lynn Gorney, the dark‐eyed disco dancer who drives John Travolta out of his mind in “Saturday Night Fever,” is a new face to. Karen Lynn Gorney is the romantic star of Saturday Night Fever (1977): the dance partner and fantasy girlfriend who said 'no' to John Travolta, and won his heart in this mega-hit film, released to raves.Miss Gorney is also the legendary 'Tara Martin' ( Erica's mortal enemy) on ABC's award-winning All My Children (1970). A classically trained.
Abraham Jacob Gornetzsky, 12 December 1894, Bialystok, Russia, d. 14 June 1990, New York City, New York, USA.
With his family, Gorney relocated to the USA at the age of 10, settling in Detroit, Michigan. There he studied piano, and played in a school orchestra, in bars and for silent films. After studying law and music theory at the University of Michigan he briefly practiced law, then turned to music. From the early 20s his songs appeared in shows and he was most often in collaboration with lyricist E.Y.
‘Yip’ Harburg. For Dancing Girl (1923) he composed ‘I’ve Been Waiting For You’, and he wrote scores for Top Hole (1924), Merry-Go-Round (1927), The Sketch Book (1929) and Earl Carroll Vanities (1930).