Rachel Rice Dooley

Ray Dooley (née Rachel Rice Dool; died January 28, 1984) was a vaudeville performer in the Ziegfeld Follies with others including W. C. Fields, Will Rogers and Fanny Brice.

[citation needed] She made her performing debut in a minstrel show in Philadelphia She played "babies and brats" in the Ziegfeld Follies after World War I with W. C. Fields,[2] Will Rogers,[2] and Fanny Brice, among others.

[1] She eloped with Eddie Dowling; the couple had two children, a son, Jack,[3] and a daughter, Mary Maxine (later Mrs. Clark).

[1] Ray Dooley died on January 28, 1984, at her home in East Hampton, New York.

She was buried alongside her husband in St. Joseph's Cemetery, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island.

Eddie and Ray Dooley, photographed by Hal Phyfe in 1929