Fox, Dorothy (b. around 1914)
Fox, Dorothy (b. around 1914)
American dance satirist. Born c. 1914 in New York, NY.
Trained with Martha Graham, Bird Larson, Charles Weidman, Mary Wigman, and more, in New York City; worked with own dance troupe for brief period in cabarets in Prague and Berlin; returned to NY (1933) where she danced with Charles Walters as an exhibition ballroom and comedy team for 3 years in such shows as New Faces of 1934, Fools Rush In and Jubilee; performed own dance satire act at St. Moritz Hotel and on Broadway in Sing Out the News (1938) and Lend an Ear (1941); choreographed for film Centennial Summer (1946).
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