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Appearance
Phyllis M. Cameron (born 4 July 1908 San Juan, Puerto Rico) was a band vocalist, notably in the casinos of Rio de Janeiro from about 1936 to about 1943.
Life
[edit]Phyllis M. Cameron was born July 4, 1908, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Philip Cameron and Mary Zima (maiden). She was raised in San Francisco and went to school in Brooklyn, where she was a classmate of Clara Bow. Her first stage work was in ballet with the Metropolitan Opera, and, early in her career, she appeared in a feature role in The Band Wagon.
Performance venues
[edit]- 1940–1943: Casino Atlantico, Rio de Janeiro
- 1935, 1939, 1943: Casino Urca (Copacabana Golden Room), Rio de Janeiro[1]
Around 1943, Cameron began working for the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
Family
[edit]- Cameron married Actor Si Wills (né Serenus Morgan Williams; 1896–1877) on October 23, 1929, in Wood County, Ohio. Wills later married comedic actress Joan Davis.
- Cameron married a wealthy cinema theater executive, Lester B. Isaac (né Lester Benjamin Isaac; 1895–1973), on August 31, 1931, in Washington, D.C. Their divorce, filed in 1937 and finalized in 1940, was highly publicized in the tabloids.
- Cameron married Alfred E. Williamson, Jr., on May 14, 1946, in Manhattan, New York.
- Cameron married Lou Wills, Jr., on February 10, 1951.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Um ator de fronteira: Uma análise da trajetória do ator Grande Otelo no teatro de revista brasileiro entre as décadas de 20 e 40" (in Portuguese) (A border actor: An analysis of the trajectory of actor Grande Otelo in the Brazilian magazine theater between the decades of 20 and 40.) (masters thesis), by Deise Santos de Britio, University of São Paulo (2011), p. 110; OCLC 796261385
- ^ "It Happened on Broadway" (syndicated column), by Earl Wilson, Pittsburgh Press, February 7, 1951, p. 25, col. 3 (top) (accessible via Newspapers.com at www
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