Virginia Ruth "Jennie" Lewis (née Egnor; November 29, 1921 – October 9, 2001), known professionally as Dagmar, was an American actress, model, and television personality.

She attended Huntington Business School and worked at Walgreens, in the West Virginia Building, as a cashier, waitress, sandwich maker, and soda jerk.

Lester devised the name as a satirical reference following the huge success on television of the TV series Mama (1949–1957), in which the younger sister, Dagmar Hansen, was portrayed by Robin Morgan.

On June 17, 1951, she appeared on the Colgate Comedy Hour with host Eddie Cantor and guests Milton Berle, Phil Foster, and Jack Leonard.

[5] In 1952, she hosted the short-lived, late Saturday evening Dagmar's Canteen (which aired on NBC at 12:15 am Eastern Time), in which she sang, danced, interviewed servicemen, and performed comedy routines.

Jean previously worked as a chorus girl on Broadway, and served as Dagmar's secretary, handling her sister's fan mail, which sometimes soared to 8,000 letters per month.

In the 1950s, Dagmar was a regular panelist on the game show Who Said That?, with H. V. Kaltenborn, Deems Taylor, Frank Conniff, Peggy Ann Garner, and Boris Karloff.

In 1950s auto design, the slang term Dagmar bumper emerged to describe dual pointed chrome projections on the front ends of Cadillacs, Buicks, Packards, and other U.S. automobiles, an allusion to the actress's physique and trademark attire.