Dixie Evans
Dixie Evans | |
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Born | Mary Lee Evans August 28, 1926 Long Beach, California, U.S. |
Died | August 3, 2013 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. | (aged 86)
Occupation | Burlesque dancer |
Spouse |
Harry Braelow
(m. 1963; div. 1965) |
Mary Lee "Dixie" Evans (August 28, 1926 – August 3, 2013) was an American burlesque dancer and stripper.
Career
Evans was best known for a burlesque
In real life Evans was three inches bigger in her
Upon the death of her close-friend and dancer Jennie Lee in 1990, Evans took over the annual reunion meetings of the Exotic Dancers League Lee had helped found and the burlesque collectible museum, Exotic World, later Burlesque Hall of Fame that Lee had owned and run. In 1991, Evans began to produce annual fundraising shows to support the museum and its holdings. The museum consisted of hundreds of items used in burlesque entertainers' acts over the years and was moved from its original location in 2005 and 2006.[2] Evans had returned to modeling in the late 1980s and resumed performing during the first dozen years of the events, later limiting herself to on-stage addresses. Her last full-fledged Monroe impersonation may have been at the 2002 Tease-O-Rama event where she mimicked Monroe's performance of "Runnin' Wild" from the film Some Like It Hot. She also gave numerous tours of the museum at its original location and would recite bits of her old Monroe acts in her uncannily accurate Monroe soundalike voice for attendees.
Death
Evans died in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the age of 86.[3][4]
References
- ^ Ragan, Tom (3 August 2013). "Burlesque icon Dixie Evans dies at age 86". Las Vegas Review-Journal.
- ^ Katsilometes, John (August 5, 2013). "Tempest Storm: Dixie Evans was 'one of a kind' in the world of burlesque". Las Vegas Sun.
- ^ Fox, Margalit (10 August 2013). "Dixie Evans, Who Brought 'Monroe' to Burlesque Houses, Dies at 86". The New York Times. p. A21.
- ^ "Dixie Evans Obituary". The Telegraph. August 6, 2013.
External links
- Dixie Evans at the Burlesque Hall of Fame
- Dixie Evans at IMDb