Jeanne Devereaux, prima ballerina of vaudeville and Broadway : "she ran between the raindrops" / Kathleen Menzie Lesko ; foreword by Anthony Slide.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lesko, Kathleen M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Devereaux, Jeanne, 1912-2011.

Devereaux, Jeanne.

Dancers--United States--Biography.

Dancers.

Vaudeville.

History.

United States.

Vaudeville--United States--History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 270 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]

Summary:

"Born Jean Helman, she entered showbiz as a dancing trouper performing in palatial theaters and was one of the last vaudevillians surviving into the 2010s. In her later years living in Pasadena, California, Devereaux indulged her passion for research and writing in the Huntington Library's Rothenberg Reading Room, losing none of her intelligence and wit despite fading memory"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Family Life in St. Louis, Missouri 11

2 The Making of a Ballerina 20

3 New York and the Circuits 32

4 Hollywood, a Fanchon and Marco Tour and Pasadena 45

5 The Roxy and the Circuits 57

6 The London Palladium 69

7 A Royal Command Performance and a European and North African Tour 83

8 Touring the British Provinces with George Ahoy! 93

9 International Casino and a Royal Performance in Paris 105

10 Radio City, Brazil and Lean Times 119

11 Aunt Lenore's Dream House and Performing at the St. Louis Muny 133

12 Touring with Earl Carroll's Vanities 143

13 Radio City and Clifford C. Fisher's Folies Bergère 154

14 Hollywood and Summer Operettas 171

15 A USO Camp Shows Tour to Japan 180

16 Radio City, Summer Operettas and the Milton Berle Television Show 194

17 Final Year in New York 211

18 Marriage and Four More Careers 222.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781476666945

1476666946

OCLC:

959535475