In 1935, they sang and danced at the Cafe Trocadero in Hollywood, and were heard by comedian Eddie Cantor, who introduced them to Darryl Zanuck and signed them up to appear in films.
[3][4] The trio came to England in 1938, performed at the London Palladium, and toured Britain in a revue, Hawaiian Paradise, with Max Wall and Ted Ray.
They returned to the United States during the Second World War, performed widely at military bases in the U.S., and in the 1945 Cavalcade of Jazz at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles,[5] and appeared in the 1947 Cab Calloway film Hi-De-Ho.
[3] They also performed at the London Palladium in 1959, with Max Bygraves, and appeared with Morecambe and Wise in an episode of their BBC TV series Two of a Kind.
[10] Virginia Peters lived in Paris, married designer Michel Engel, and took part in Gilbert Bécaud's project, Opéra d'Aran, in 1962.
She later performed as a solo singer under the name Virginia Vee, and released a series of singles and EPs in France, the most successful of which was a version of the Bee Gees' song "I Can't See Nobody" in 1969.