Leigh Sisters
The Leigh Sisters was a vaudeville act at the end of the 19th century in the United States.
The sisters were Edna and Stella Leigh who danced in a saucy style,[1] exposing their legs more than was usual in those times.[2] They were filmed by Alfred Clark for two Kinetoscope productions – Acrobatic Dance and Umbrella Dance.[3] These early moving pictures have been lost but there is a frame from the latter in the Margaret Herrick Library.[4]
In 1897, Stella had retired and was replaced by Edwina.[5] The act appeared as members of "The Alimony Club" in Little Miss Chicago, a burlesque at the Gaiety Theatre in Chicago.[6]
References
- ^ Adams; Keene; Koella (2011), Seeing the American Woman, 1880-1920: The Social Impact of the Visual Media Explosion, McFarland, p. 18, ISBN 9780786489039
- ^ "Danced Without Tights", New York Herald, p. 7, 19 June 1895
- ^ Musser, Charles (1991), "Edison and the Kinetoscope", Before the Nickelodeon, University of California Press, p. 56, ISBN 9780520060807
- ^ Yumibe, Joshua (2012), Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism, Rutgers University Press, p. 13, ISBN 9780813552989
- ^ "Vaudeville Jottings", The New York Dramatic Mirror, p. 20, 20 March 1897
- ^ Little Miss Chicago, Gaiety Theatre, 14 March 1897
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