Jeanne Devereaux

She was a headliner at Radio City Music Hall, performing on Broadway and the burlesque circuit, and danced on stages around the world.

[2][3][4] She was the sole support for her mother, who traveled with her and managed her career, with financial ups and downs that included numerous periods between bookings of being nearly destitute.

She performed with various civic light opera companies across the United States, and in World War II, did USO tours.

She opened the Devereaux Ballet Arts School in Pasadena, California, initially in their home and later in a studio (due to zoning restrictions).

She became a popular lecturer on historical topics and conducted extensive research at the Huntington Library on Grace Nicholson, whose home is now the USC Pacific Asia Museum.