A young Virginia loved to laugh and dance. She began dancing as a teenager and first performed in a school play "Babes in Toyland." She graduated from Wyondotte High School in Kansas City, Kansas in 1947. Her first Chorus Girl Job was at the Folly Theatre in her senior year of High School. Later, moving on to the Burlesque stage as a featured dancer she was destined to become a veteran burlesque dancer having her own fan club called the baoomers. She was known for the ability to twirl tassels on both her breast's and behind at the same time.

       Jennie was an entertainer, not just a stripper who would even get acrobatic and do cartwheels across the stage according to Dixie Evens. Miss Lee Co-owned the "Blue Viking" and "the Sassy Lassy" (755 N. Pacific) nightclub in San Pedro (1968), California, with her husband, "The Singing Cowboy" himself Mr. Charlie Arroyo.The group Jan and Dean (along with Arnie)

sang one of their first songs about seeing Jennie Lee. The single "Jennie Lee" debuted in 1958 and peaked out at #8 on the charts and helped make Jennie a household name.

       In 1955 Jennie was an activist who did more for the profession and its dancers than any other one person. She and a group of eight other dancers created the 'Exotic Dancers League' to help Exotic dancers fight censorship such as in 1959 when Newspaper censorships were being placed on their Ads. She fought for better pay, better conditions with in the clubs and kept many people together and informed and helped many destitute, aging strippers who were becoming forgot about. Jennie was also the President of the American Guild of Variety Artists as well as avtive in other organizations.

       Jennie became afflicted with breast cancer and moved to a Mojave (Hellendale), California 40-acre farm in 1981. With her husband Charlie in tow they started the "the Exotic World Burlesque Museum and Striptease Hall of Fame" (1970) which still operates today (2012) under then guidance of Dixie Evens. Jennie Passed away from cancer at Helendale, San Bernardino County, California, USA in 1990 and her Urn resides in the Museum above.

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