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Bee Palmer
1894 - 1967
Birth place
Chicago, United State..
Death place
New York, United Stat..
The 'Shimmy Queen', magnetic, sensuous dancer and 20's good time girl Bee Palmer invented the shimmy, performing 'I want to learn to jazz dance!' in Ziegfeld Follies Midnight Frolic (1918) to mixed reviews: 'now and then she sings, which she shouldn't'. Secretly married her pianist Al Siegel in a midnight ceremony, the bride wearing a large purple hat (divorced 1928 in 1933 marries Jack Fina, her new 20 year old pianist) 'I want to shimmy,' 'Singin the blues' and 'I'll see you in my dreams'.
Buried by stargirl on December 23, 2010
