Doris Eaton Travis


Doris Eaton Travis was an American dancer, stage and film actress, dance instructor, writer, and rancher, who was the last of the acclaimed Ziegfeld girls.

She was one of seven children born to Mary and Charles Eaton in Norfolk, Virginia. She was raised as a Christian Scientist. She was one of seven children in the family. At the age of four, Travis began attending dance lessons in Washington, D.C., along with her sisters Mary and Pearl Eaton. In 1911, all three sisters were hired for a production of Maurice Maeterlincks fantasy play The Blue Bird at the Shubert Belasco Theatre in Washington. While Travis had a minor role in the show, as a sleeping child in the Palace of Night scene, it marked the beginning of her career in professional theatre.

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