Durelle Alexander (March 30, 1918 - May 21, 1994) was a child performer who appeared in "Hollywood Junior Follies" and several silent "Our Gang" comedies throughout the 1920s.

She later toured with the prominent big bands of Paul Whiteman, Eddy Duchin, Smith Ballew, and Archie Bleyer.

While appearing with Whiteman in "Billy Rose's Casa Manana", a centennial celebration of Fort Worth, Texas, she met Edmund Van Zandt, grandson of the city's founders.

Alexander and Van Zandt were married in 1939,[1] and during their 33 years of marriage, (until his death in 1972), they reared three children and lived in Venezuela, London, England, Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.

In 1975, she married a widowed family friend, Col. Harry Taylor Eidson, and they moved to Austin to be near their children and grandchildren.