Eleanor Bayley: Portrait of a Kansas Chorus Girl
Eleanor Bayley (1916-76) was a decidedly minor show biz figure, but her life and career do contain points of interest. Trained by the Moscow Brothers, who also taught Denishawn's Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis, Bayley moved to Hollywood at the tail end of the Jazz Age. (Interestingly, Louise Brooks, another Denishawn dancer, also hailed […]