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Doris Eaton Travis, also known as Doris Eaton (born March 14, 1904 in Norfolk, Virginia) is a retired Broadway and film performer, dance instructor and author. She is also the last surviving Ziegfeld girl. Image File history File links DorisEatonTravis. ...
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Ziegfeld Girls were the chorus girls from Florenz Ziegfelds theatrical spectaculars known as the Ziegfeld Follies which were based on the Folies Bergères of Paris. ...
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Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ...
Ziegfeld Girls were the chorus girls from Florenz Ziegfelds theatrical spectaculars known as the Ziegfeld Follies which were based on the Folies Bergères of Paris. ...
Early life and career
Eaton began attending dance lessons in Washington D.C., along with her sisters Mary and Pearl, at the age of four. In 1911, all three sisters were hired for a production of Maurice Maeterlinck's fantasy play The Blue Bird at the Shubert Belasco Theatre in Washington. While Eaton had a minor role in the show, in the Palace of Night scene, it marked the beginning of her career in professional theatre. Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United...
Mary Eaton in the 1920s. ...
Pearl Eaton was a Broadway performer, choreographer and dance supervisor of the 1910s and 1920s. ...
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After The Blue Bird, in 1912, the three Eaton sisters and their younger brother Joe began appearing in various plays and melodramas for the Poli Stock Company. They quickly gained reputations as professional, reliable and versatile actors, and were rarely out of work.
In 1915, all three sisters appeared in a new production of The Blue Bird for Poli. Doris and Mary were given the starring roles of Mytyl and Tytyl. The siblings were subsequently invited to reprise their roles for a New York and road tour of the play, produced by the Shubert Brothers. When the show closed, Doris and her brother Charlie, who had followed his four siblings into show business, resumed their work with Poli and appeared together in their first Broadway show, Mother Carey's Chickens at the Cort Theatre. ...
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Ziegfeld Follies years By 1918, Pearl Eaton had become a dancer and assistant to the director with the Ziegfeld Follies. When Doris accompanied Pearl to a rehearsal, dance supervisor Ned Wayburn spotted her and hired her for a role in the summer touring company of the 1918 Follies. The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931. ...
The same day she finished the eighth grade, Doris began rehearsals for the Follies. To circumvent child labor laws and the attention of the Gerry Society, she performed under the stage names "Doris Levant" (actually her young niece's name) and "Lucille Levant". As soon as she turned sixteen, she began using her real name again. Wayburn was one of only a few people who were aware of her true age, and arranged for her mother to accompany her on the Follies tour as a paid member of the company. The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was founded in 1875 by Elbridge Thomas Gerry and Nehry Bergh as the worlds first child protective agency. ...
Eaton Travis would associate with Ziegfeld for several years, appearing in the 1918, 1919 and 1920 editions of the Ziegfeld Follies and the 1919 Midnight Frolics. She was Marilyn Miller (the star)'s understudy. Doris Eaton was not the only member of the Eaton family to prosper in the show: by 1922, Mary, Pearl, Doris, Joe and ten-year old Charlie had all performed in one edition of the Follies or another. Doris Eaton made her motion picture debut, aged 17, in the 1921 romantic drama At the Stage Door opposite silent film star Billie Dove. Marilyn Miller Marilyn Miller (born Mary Ellen Reynolds) (September 1, 1898 – April 7, 1936) was one of the most popular Broadway musical stars of the 1920s and early 1930s. ...
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Doris' last appearance with the Follies was the 1920 edition. Her career flourished in the 1920s and early 1930s: she made a number of silent films, including Tell Your Children with director Donald Crisp in England and Egypt; performed in five different Broadway shows and danced in the Hollywood Music Box Revue and the Gorham Follies in Los Angeles and the Hollywood Club in New York. The 1920s is a decade that is sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ...
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While in the Hollywood Music Box Revue, Travis premiered two important songs, both composed by Nacio Herb Brown: Singin' in the Rain and The Doll Dance. Doris was the lyricist for the latter song, but did not receive due credit. Nacio Herb Brown (22 February 1896 - 28 September 1964) was a United States songwriter. ...
Singin in the Rain is a song with lyrics by Arthur Freed and music by Nacio Herb Brown, published in 1929. ...
At eighteen, Doris Eaton married Joe Gorham, who was twice her age, the producer of the Gorham Follies. The marriage was opposed by the Eaton clan, and quickly regretted by the young Doris when Gorham revealed a cruel and abusive nature. The union lasted less than a year, ending when Gorham died of a heart attack.
Second and third careers Travis performed in her final Broadway show, Page Pygmallion at the Bijou Theatre in 1932. Her career, along with those of her siblings, declined in the 1930s. She returned to work in stock theatrical productions on Long Island and had a brief, albeit unsuccessful, foray into vaudeville with her brother Charlie. The Bijou Theatre was a Broadway theatre built by the Shubert family in 1917 at 209 W. 45th Street in New York, U.S.. It was one of three theatres which hosted the premiere season of the musical Fancy Free, and ‘stood in’ for the Mercury Theatre in the movie...
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Charles Eaton (June 22, 1910 - August 15, 2004) was a juvenile stage and film performer, and the most important performing male member of the clan once referred to as The siblings, all appeared, at one time or another, in The Ziegfeld Follies each year between 1918 through 1923. ...
In 1936, Travis was hired by the Arthur Murray Dance Studios in New York as a tap dance instructor. She remained with the Arthur Murray company for thirty-two years, advancing from teaching to owning her own school. Eventually Doris Eaton Travis established and owned a total of eighteen Arthur Murray studios across Michigan. She authored a column of dance advice and commentary for the Detroit News entitled "On Your Toes" and appeared in local television programs. Arthur Murray (April 4, 1895 – March 3, 1991), a dance instructor and businessman, was born in New York, New York as Moses Teichman. ...
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One of Travis' pupils, inventor and engineer Paul Travis, would eventually become her husband. Their marriage would endure for over fifty years, until Paul's death in 2000; they had no children.
After retiring from the dance studio business in 1968, Eaton Travis and her husband moved to Norman, Oklahoma, and established a ranch. The initial 220-acre plot grew to 880-acres, and many of the quarter-horses bred and raised on the ranch had success in racing. The ranch is still in operation (largely as a boarding facility), and managed by Doris Eaton Travis, as of 2006. Bizzell Library, University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma, is the county seat and largest city in Cleveland County in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and is part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Statistical Area. ...
Later life In 1992, Doris Eaton Travis graduated cum laude from the University of Oklahoma, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Oakland University in 2004. She has appeared in several documentaries and interviews about the Ziegfeld Follies and her siblings and colleagues; she also published an autobiography and family history, entitled The Days We Danced, in 2003. In 1999 she made her first film appearance in over sixty-five years with a small role in Man on the Moon with Jim Carrey. Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. ...
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In 1998, Travis returned to Broadway and the New Amsterdam Theatre, the same theatre (albeit rebuilt) where she had first appeared in 1918, 80 years earlier, to participate in the Easter Bonnet Competition, a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
She has become the show's "lucky charm" and an audience favorite, and has continued to appear in the production every year, often presenting renditions of her old dances.
In 2006, aged 102, Doris was the subject of a photo-collage biography by Pulitzer Prize nominee, Lauren Redniss. The book is entitled Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies.
See also Charles Eaton (June 22, 1910 - August 15, 2004) was a juvenile stage and film performer, and the most important performing male member of the clan once referred to as The siblings, all appeared, at one time or another, in The Ziegfeld Follies each year between 1918 through 1923. ...
Mary Eaton in the 1920s. ...
Pearl Eaton was a Broadway performer, choreographer and dance supervisor of the 1910s and 1920s. ...
The Seven Little Eatons was a family of American stage peformers in the early part of the twentieth century. ...
The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931. ...
Sources - Travis, Doris Eaton. The Days We Danced, Marquand Books, 2003, ISBN 0-8061-9950-4
- Doris Eaton Travis at the Internet Broadway Database
- Doris Eaton Travis at the Internet Movie Database
- Interview with Victoria Wilson
- Interview with Lauren Redniss
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