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Beneath towering, glittering, feathered headdresses, the Ziegfeld Girls floated across grand Broadway stages in lavish pageants known as the Ziegfeld Follies, often to the wistful tune that
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Although she would make six movies in all (including Be Yourself, 1930; The Great Ziegfeld, 1936; Everybody Sing, 1938; and Ziegfeld Follies, 1946), film stardom eluded her and she claimed she never felt comfortable in front of the camera.
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From zeppelins to sealing wax, from turbans to typewriters, from Auntie Mame to the Ziegfeld Follies, Let's Bring Back has covered a lot of ground.
Lesley M. M. Blume: 30 Things That Need to Stage a Comeback, Pronto! (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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From zeppelins to sealing wax, from turbans to typewriters, from Auntie Mame to the Ziegfeld Follies, Let's Bring Back has covered a lot of ground.
Lesley M. M. Blume: 30 Things That Need to Stage a Comeback, Pronto! (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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From zeppelins to sealing wax, from turbans to typewriters, from Auntie Mame to the Ziegfeld Follies, Let's Bring Back has covered a lot of ground.
Lesley M. M. Blume: 30 Things That Need to Stage a Comeback, Pronto! (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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She refined her craft as a comic artist, describing herself as "a cartoonist working in the flesh," and caused a sensation in The Ziegfeld Follies of 1921 with an uncharacteristically serious selection, "My Man," designed to capitalize on her tumultuous relationship with Arnstein.
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At 14, she joined the Ziegfeld Follies and stayed with the Ziegfeld organization for three years, moving from chorus girl to solo dancer.
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The youngest Ziegfeld Follies girl when she was hired — at 14 — in 1918, Travis continued to dance long after her Follies days ended.
Archive 2010-05-09 Bill Crider 2010
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Before focusing exclusively on "the airwaves," she appeared in burlesque and vaudeville, drama, film, and musical revues (including nine Ziegfeld Follies between 1910 and 1936).
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CBC News - Theatre - Last Ziegfeld Follies chorus girl dies at 106: Doris Eaton Travis, the last of Broadway's famed Ziegfeld Follies girls, died Tuesday at age 106.
Archive 2010-05-09 Bill Crider 2010
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