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Dottie Dee Dancers Collection

Identifier

MS-00544

Abstract

The Dottie Dee Dancers Collection (approximately 1940-2002) is comprised of newspaper clippings and photographs documenting the career of Dorothy (Dalton) Tomlin who led a line of dancers known as the Dottie Dee Dancers. The dancers performed in nightclubs in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other western cities. Other items in the collection include scans of the original costume drawings by Hollywood costume designer Lloyd Lambert that were created for the Dottie Dee Dancers, and the transcripts of a 2002 oral history of Dottie and her husband, Donald Tomlin.

Archival Collection

Photograph of dancers at rehearsal, 1980s

Date

1950 to 1959

Archival Collection

Description

Color photo of Arden-Fletcher or Donn Arden dancers warming up in rehearsal, possibly for the Lido show "Panache" in Paris, France. Rich Rizzo is identified at the front center.

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Taking pictures of the dancers: photographic print

Date

1965

Description

Paul Steffen's dancers arrive at the Reno Airport in 1965.

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Slide transparency of topless dancers and a male dancer onstage during a Donn Arden production, circa 1940s to 1950s

Date

1940 to 1959

Archival Collection

Description

Topless showgirls onstage during an early Donn Arden production. The male dancer in the center was possibly Arden himself.

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Dancers having a pinic: photographic prints

Date

1965-06

Description

Paul Steffen Dancers relaxing at Lake Tahoe in June of 1965.

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Dancers posing in costume: photographic print

Date

1986

Description

Kurdish dancers at the World Peace Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark 1986.

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Photograph of Donn Arden Dancers, 1940s

Date

1940 to 1949

Archival Collection

Description

Donn Arden Dancers grouped on stage in variety of costumes.

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Nancy Geer, dancer: photographic print

Date

1920 (year approximate) to 1989 (year approximate)

Description

Portrait of Nancy Geer, New Orleans. (Possibly a dancer in some of the Donn Arden productions.)

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Dancers standing with a statue: photographic print

Date

1959-07

Description

Parisian dancers from "La Nue Eve" revue pose near statue in Paris in July 1959.

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Photographs of Arden-Fletcher Dancers, 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Archival Collection

Description

Thirteen snapshots of various members of the Arden-Fletcher Dancers.

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