Dixie Dunbar

Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Dunbar grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She began studying dancing as a child and went on to sing and dance in nightclubs.^[1]

In 1934, she was Ray Bolger's dancing partner in the revue Life Begins at 8:40, which was staged in Boston.^[3] She also performed in that show on Broadway in 1934-35 and the Broadway productions of Yokel Boy (1939–40)^[4] and George White's Scandals (1934).^[1]

Dunbar's film debut also came in George White's Scandals (1934).^[1] During the 1930s she appeared in a number of Twentieth Century Fox films, including two Jones Family films.^{[citation needed]}

After she left Broadway and films, she returned to nightclubs, performing for a while before she retired.^[1] In the early 1950s, she performed in television commercials for Old Gold cigarettes, dancing enclosed in a representation of a cigarette pack with only her legs visible.^[5]

Dunbar married three times: to choreographer Gene Snyder from 1941 to 1952,^[6][7][8] to Robert M. Herndon from 1954 to 1957,^[9][10] and to Jack L. King from October 1958 until his death.^[11]

She died on August 29, 1991, in Miami Beach, Florida, aged 72. She had had a series of heart attacks.^[5]