Dolores Grant ~ The Canadian Ziegfeld Lady -

Dolores Grant was a Canadian showgirl who carried out within the Ziegfeld Follies

She was born Ethel Mae Grant on February 1, 1905 in Novia Scotia, Canada. Throughout her childhood her household additionally lived in Toronto. On the age of twenty-two she made her Broadway debut within the musical Padlocks Of 1927. She additionally appeared within the musicals Rosalie, Present Lady, and Easy Simon. Then she was employed to bounce within the Ziegfeld Follies. In 1931 producer Earl Carroll provided her a big increase if she would depart the Follies and be part of his present. Dolores spent the subsequent three years as the best paid star of Earl Carroll’s Vanities. The press known as her “an impressive Nordic magnificence.” She went to Monaco in 1934 to be a part of the Monte Carlo circus. Dolores married Howard Turner Deighton, a British stage producer, in Might of 1938.

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He produced a lavish stage present in London for her to star in. The Duke Of Windsor turned certainly one of her greatest followers! They took the present on the highway to South America and performed on the Copacabana in Rio De Janeiro. In an interview she mentioned “If I had my complete life to reside once more I might need it to be simply the identical“. She determined to stop present enterprise shortly after her sons, Grant and Robert, had been born. Through the Nineteen Forties she and her husband Howard began a enterprise making Vacation decorations in Los Gatos. They remained fortunately married till he handed away in 1967. Dolores died on April 10, 1980 on the age of seventy-five. She was buried at Los Gatos Memorial Park in San Jose, California.