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  1. The Ziegfeld follie and silent actress Doris Eaton Travis is now 103 years old.

     

     

    Here she is dancing to a number she performed in 1919

     

    Just Like Yesterday

     

     

     

    Also here is a brief history of what she has done

     

     

    1913 on stage performance infront of President Woodrow Wilson

    1918 Bobbed hair and joined Flo Ziegfeld and his Ziegfeld follies

    1918 - 1923 - Perfomed with Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, Fanny Brice, George Gershwin, Fred Astaire.

    1919 Was understudy to Marilyn Miller who was also a close friend

    1920's Was the leading actress in the show Excess Baggage 1927 - 1928

    1929 Was the first theatrical actress to perform Singing In The Rain

    1920's Got into an argument with Henry Ford

    1920's Bantered with Babe Ruth and Charles Lindberg

    1921 - 1933 acted in silent pictures / and early talkies

    1950's Had her own television show.

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