Retired to Santa Maria, California after the death of her third husband in 1999 to be close to her youngest son.
When the movie was finally passed, it had a general release in 1946.
She formed the show out of boredom and because there was nothing much going on in town for the older folks to do.
Sometimes the photographers would pose me in a low-necked nightgown and tell me to bend down and pick up the pails.
But kids are learning swing and going back to the music of the forties.
She was the eldest child and only daughter of the five children of Geraldine née Jacobi and Roy William Russell.