Dorothy Kloss
Dorothy Dale Kloss (born October 27, 1923) began dancing when she was 3 years old. While working with a young Bob Fosse in a Chicago class, she won a tap contest and catapulted to stardom doing her own act at the Empire Room in Chicago. She toured the country from New York to California, and played Mexico City with the legendary Cantinflas.
She toured with Eddy Duchin until his orchestra was drafted during World War II, and then performed for the USO. In 1946 she became the hostess and dance instructor of television shows, broadcasting out of Chicago on WBKB.
She has performed with Liberace, The Mills Brothers, Mel Tormé, Harry Richman, Howard Keel, Kay Starr, Frankie Laine, and Chico Marx. She was accompanied by such bands as Ray Noble, Skinnay Ennis, Shep Fields and his “Rippling Rhythm,” to name a few.
Kloss performed at the Plaza Theatre in Palm Springs, California, with The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies, a dance and musical revue where she was a regular "Long-Legged Lovely", performing in ten shows weekly until May 2010. Soon after she was awarded a star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars.[1]
In 2013, Kloss's autobiography entitled I'm Not in Kansas Anymore: Love Dorothy was published by Bear Manor Media (ISBN 978-1593932329).
References
Further reading
- Barron, Margie (November 20, 2008). "Valley Variety: Giving Thanks at the Fabulous Follies" (PDF). The Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier. p. 4. Retrieved February 28, 2012.
- Gerrie, Anthea (May 31, 2009). "Met the 85-year-old Showgirl" (PDF). Sunday Express (London). p. 50. Retrieved February 28, 2012.
- Weimers, Leigh (November 11, 2001). "In Palm Springs, the show goes on (and on and on): veteran performers carry follies into its 11th season" (PDF). San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved February 28, 2012.
External links
- Video on YouTube
- Dorothy Kloss at the Internet Movie Database