Throwback Thursday and Jeanne Devereaux
Jeanne Devereaux was born in St. Louis
in 1912. She was a child prodigy who, by
the age of eleven, was a ballet star. She performed in vaudeville, the music
halls of Europe and cultural establishments from the 1920s through the 1940s.
In 1935 she danced a Royal Command
Performance at the London Palladium and became the first ballerina to do so
since Anna Pavlova. In the 1940s she was a headliner at Radio City Music Hall.
She also appeared in two movies: Are You There? (1930), and Kiss Me Again (1931). Both roles were
uncredited.
She retired from performing in 1952 and married Thomas Perkins. Together they moved to
Pasadena California and opened a ballet school which operated until
1964.
She died in 2011, not quite 100 years
old. She was one of the last vaudeville performers to leave this world. There
is a detailed book written about her life, called Jeanne Devereaux, Prima Ballerina of Vaudeville and Broadway: She Ran
Between the Raindrops by Kathleen Menzie Lesko https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781476666945&i=stripbooks&linkCode=qs.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Ballet History Secret #316:
“Jeanne
Devereaux was a ballet dancer in vaudeville and on Broadway.”
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