Doris Eaton Travis Celebrates 102nd Birthday Today

Doris Eaton Travis, Original Ziegfeld Girl and frequent guest star of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' annual Easter Bonnet Competition, will be celebrating her 102nd birthday today at her home in Oklahoma.

Travis began performing at the age of four, she first appeared on Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre, in the 1918 Ziegfeld Follies at the age of fourteen. She was a specialty dancer in the 1919 Follies and with her last Follies appearance in 1920, was a principal. This spring she is expected to return to New York to perform in the annual Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS EASTER BONNET COMPETITION. This will mark her ninth appearance at the annual fundraiser which benefits BC/EFA.

BIOGRAPHY

Doris Eaton Travis. Following her Ziegfeld years, she was a featured star in many musical reviews, Broadway comedies and silent films. Nacio Herb Brown's classic "Singing In The Rain" was written for and introduced by Doris in the Hollywood Music Box Review. She starred in films made in New York, Hollywood, England and Egypt and after an absence of over sixty years, returned to Hollywood in 1999, and at the age of 95 was cast for a cameo role in Jim Carrey's "Man In The Moon." For the past six years she has performed her dance magic on the New Amsterdam stage in the annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS benefits. Now, celebrating her 102nd birthday, she continues to actively manage and operate her 880 acre ranch in Norman, Oklahoma.