Possibly moving
to St. Louis, Missouri in her early teens and later by age fifteen
was in New York starting her professional career on the New York
stage in the early 1940's. While working at the Strand Theatre
on Broadway, she was spotted by Hollywood Talent scouts working
for MGM and was signed to contract for the film "Meet The
People" at age 17. As of this writing she is known to have
only been in four films and 1 short film, but more may surface
as time goes on.
References to Miriam LaVelle have been found
in Billboard Magazine and American newspapers published between
1942 and 1950 and after 1950, she disappears from the scene probably
due to most of the theatres and nightclubs that she was working
in either closed down, became movie theatres or became more of
a Burlesque in nature and her type of dance routines unfortunately
became a thing of the past, unless she wanted to wear pasties,
which I doubt she did.
The Website Miriamlevelle.com
(where most of this page info and photo comes from) is actively
seeking help on obtaining more information on her, so in thanks
for supplying info (which I know the pain it can be locating
info on dancers) I am helping by asking you to contact him
if you have further information ... The Miriam Lavelle pages:
Link....or
eMail him here.
More will be added here as I find it as well.
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