Mitzi Mayfair Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Mitzi Mayfair Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Mitzi Mayfair (née Juanita Emylyn Pique; June , â€" May ) was an

American dancer and stage and film actress.Born in Fulton, Kentucky,

she grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. In , she told a Harvard Crimson

interviewer, "I guess I'm just a natural dancer". She recalled

performing professionally albeit underage at age in a "Kids Act". She

was seen and hired by vaudevillian Gus Edwards and taken on tour; at

one stop, "child labor authorities hauled her ... off the stage".She

continued to work in vaudeville and on stage. Mayfair was in at least

four Broadway productions in the s, including the last edition of Flo

Ziegfeld's Follies in . She joined the cast of At Home Abroad when

star Eleanor Powell, also discovered by Gus Edwards, had to leave the

show.According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "the manager of the

Main Street Theater in Kansas City" did not like her name, and changed

it to Mitzi Mayfair without her knowledge; when she first saw the name

on the marquee, she thought she had been replaced. However, the

Brooklyn Daily Eagle had a different story, stating that Gus Edwards

forgot her name and made one up.
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