Throwback Thursday and the Winter
Sisters
The three Winter Sisters, Effie, Mae and
Dorothy began performing after their father died to earn extra money for the
family. They developed a dance, acrobatic and tumbling act and worked in
vaudeville during the 1930s and 1940s.
They appeared with Jimmy
Durante, the Ink Spots, and Edith Piaf at
her premiere US appearance at the Rialto Theatre New York City. They also traveled
with Bob Hope’s USO Tour. They performed with many notable entertainers of the
day.In addition, they trained to be trick pony riders and performed on Broadway
in the production of Jumbo.
One evening in the late 1940s, while
appearing at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago, they received a note
backstage. It invited them to meet a man after their performance. It must
have been a good meeting because Mae went on to marry him! They had three
children and lived in Chicago for more than 40 years.
Effie lived on the outskirts of New York
City and Dorothy, the youngest of the three, settled near Gainesville Florida where
she taught dance classes for many years.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Dance History Secret #293:
“The three
Winter Sisters performed in vaudeville and Broadway.”
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“It was
the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love
and duty and resentment that tied them together. The glances they exchanged;
the complicated balance of power established over decades; the games I would
never play with rules I would never fully understand. And perhaps that was key:
they were such a natural group that they made me feel remarkably singular by
comparison. To watch them together was to know strongly, painfully, all that
I'd been missing.”
― Kate Morton, The Distant Hours
― Kate Morton, The Distant Hours
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Delighted to see this. I discovered a film by the Winter Sisters and used it for this video, and I'm more enthralled and intrigued every time I watch it. To think that they're gone now and so alive and full of joy here.
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