Doner, Rose, 1905-1926

Rose Doner, born Rose Irene Donohoe in 1905, was youngest daughter of vaudeville team Joe and Nellie Doner and sister of entertainers Kitty and Ted Doner. Rose trained as a dancer from a young age, and made her first professional appearence on stage in 1920. In 1925, she traveled to California with her sister Kitty and brother Ted to perform in the West coast production of the Gershwin musical, Lady Be Good. While in Los Angeles, she reported appeared in two films; one may have been the Howard Hughes funded Swell Hogan. After returning to New York City, she appeared in several additional stage performances on the eastern seaboard, beforing dying after appendicitis surgery two weeks before her twenty-first birthday.

Source:

Los Angeles Evening Express. "Rose Doner in Lady Be Good". Los Angeles, California, July 18, 1925. pg. 9.

The Philadelphia Inquirer. "Her Unusual Talent Asserted Itself". Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 9, 1926. pg. 68.

The Daily Times. "Rose Doner." Death notice. Mamaroneck, New York, 20 Aug 1926. pg. 2.