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Dee Turnell Profile
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| (Edythia Helen Turnell) |
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| 27 November 25 | is born in Cook County, Illinois |
| ? | turns down a ballet job at the Radio City Music Hall to be a showgirl at The Copacabana |
| 19 January 45 | Hedda Hopper reports that "Dee Turnell of the Copacabana, who has been cutting quite a rug with the New York nighthounds, has been signed by Twentieth for a spot specialty dance in The Dolly Sisters (1945)." |
| 45 | has a 13-year-old Collie named Cleopatra |
| stars in the stage production of Spring in Brazil |
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| 29 December 46 | is named Prettiest Legs by Earl Wilson |
| 31 December 46 | Hedda Hoppers says "I wonder why Warner Bros doesn't test Dee Turnell, who looks like the late Marilyn Miller." |
| 6 July 48 | Dorothy Manners reports that "Dee Turnell has been signed to a new Hollywood contract because of her standout performance in a dancing number with Fred Astaire." |
| 16 October 48 | appears on Hollywood Star Theater where she is introduced by Van Johnson |
| 4 May 50 | models at the 16th Police Show at the Shrine Auditorium |
| 4 March 51 | marries Jerry Thorpe |
| ? | says to Barrie Chase, "I feel so much better after getting married. Now, I don't have to stay in this awful industry." |
| 2 November 54 | Lydia Lane reports that "I lunched with Dee Turnell recently at MGM and as she ate a seafood salad she told me that since her childhood in Chicago, she had been a dancer but never dreamed she'd end up with a Hollywood contract." |
| 14 January 55 | guest stars with Sylvia Lewis on The Ray Bolger Show |
| August 57 | her daughter Tracy is born |
| August 59 | her daughter Tricia is born |
| August 64 | her daughter Tiana is born |
| 22 February 91 | hosts the Auxiliary Inc dinner dance at the Palm Beach Ballet Center |
| January 03 | dies in California |
| Sources: Palm Beach Daily News, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, The Buffalo News, The Times, Barrie Chase, Ancestry.com | |
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| Links: Filmography Those Obscure Objects of Desire | |