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== Early Life == |
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Catherine Morgan Basie was born on April 11, 1914 in Cleveland, Ohio.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Catherine L. “Katy” Morgan Basie (1914-1983) -... |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22272099/catherine_l-basie |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=www.findagrave.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Congress |first=United States |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=blk3caJsIw0C&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA43639&dq=%22catherine+basie%22&hl=en#v=onepage&q=%22catherine%20basie%22&f=false |title=Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress |date=1971 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |language=en}}</ref> She was a champion backstroke swimmer in high school and an Olympic hopeful. Unable to adequately train for the 1936 Olympics due to a lack of financial support, Catherine ended her athletic career and began pursuing dancing. At 16 years old she joined the vaudeville act, the Whitman Sisters and became part of a trio of dancers which included Alice Whitman and Jeni LeGon known as the “Snake Hips Queens.”<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Mosbrook |first=Joe |title=Cleveland Jazz History |publisher=Northeast Ohio Jazz Society |year=2003 |edition=2nd |pages=50}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-02-21 |title=Whitman Sisters [biography]:Biography Description: Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221131338/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.music.tdabio.156/ |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Basie |first=Count |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ATF0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT262&lpg=PT262&dq=princess+aloha+catherine+basie&source=bl&ots=EVZMbGSVbn&sig=ACfU3U3xRY6zr2wd5eehPJ4Uhn20Kjt0Qw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjvho2tod6FAxXwFVkFHQT_Ans4ChDoAXoECAMQAw#v=onepage&q=princess%20aloha%20catherine%20basie&f=false |title=Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie |date=2016-12-14 |publisher=U of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-1-4529-5320-5 |pages=135 |language=en}}</ref> She was also an accomplished singer and one of the original performers at the Copacabana nightclub in New York.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 12, 1983 |title=Catherine Basie Obituary |work=Herald News |pages=B - 13}}</ref> |
Catherine Morgan Basie was born on April 11, 1914 in Cleveland, Ohio.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Catherine L. “Katy” Morgan Basie (1914-1983) -... |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22272099/catherine_l-basie |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=www.findagrave.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Congress |first=United States |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=blk3caJsIw0C&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA43639&dq=%22catherine+basie%22&hl=en#v=onepage&q=%22catherine%20basie%22&f=false |title=Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress |date=1971 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |language=en}}</ref> She was a champion backstroke swimmer in high school and an Olympic hopeful. Unable to adequately train for the 1936 Olympics due to a lack of financial support, Catherine ended her athletic career and began pursuing dancing. At 16 years old she joined the vaudeville act, the Whitman Sisters and became part of a trio of dancers which included Alice Whitman and Jeni LeGon known as the “Snake Hips Queens.”<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Mosbrook |first=Joe |title=Cleveland Jazz History |publisher=Northeast Ohio Jazz Society |year=2003 |edition=2nd |pages=50}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-02-21 |title=Whitman Sisters [biography]:Biography Description: Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221131338/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.music.tdabio.156/ |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Basie |first=Count |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ATF0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT262&lpg=PT262&dq=princess+aloha+catherine+basie&source=bl&ots=EVZMbGSVbn&sig=ACfU3U3xRY6zr2wd5eehPJ4Uhn20Kjt0Qw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjvho2tod6FAxXwFVkFHQT_Ans4ChDoAXoECAMQAw#v=onepage&q=princess%20aloha%20catherine%20basie&f=false |title=Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie |date=2016-12-14 |publisher=U of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-1-4529-5320-5 |pages=135 |language=en}}</ref> She was also an accomplished singer and one of the original performers at the Copacabana nightclub in New York.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 12, 1983 |title=Catherine Basie Obituary |work=Herald News |pages=B - 13}}</ref> |
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Catherine was a featured dancer in short films, “soundies,” which were produced during the early 1940s. She is billed under her stage name, Princess Aloha.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Princess Aloha {{!}} Actor, Soundtrack |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1471592/ |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite book |last=Basie |first=Count |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ATF0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT262&lpg=PT262&dq=princess+aloha+catherine+basie&source=bl&ots=EVZMbGSVbn&sig=ACfU3U3xRY6zr2wd5eehPJ4Uhn20Kjt0Qw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjvho2tod6FAxXwFVkFHQT_Ans4ChDoAXoECAMQAw#v=onepage&q=princess%20aloha%20catherine%20basie&f=false |title=Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie |date=2016-12-14 |publisher=U of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-1-4529-5320-5 |pages=153 |language=en}}</ref> Princess Aloha is the featured act with Andy Iona and His Orchestra in the 1941 soundie “Hilo Hattie.” The film was produced by Sam Coslow and directed by Josef Berne.<ref>{{Citation |last=Berne |first=Josef |title=Hilo Hattie |type=Short, Music |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26453710/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_7_nm_1_q_Hilo%2520Hattie |access-date=2024-04-25 |others=Princess Aloha, Andy Iona |publisher=RCM Productions}}</ref> She also starred as Princess Aloha with Charles Dorn in “My Little Grass Shack” in 1942.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385109/fullcredits |title=My Little Grass Shack (1942) - IMDb |access-date=2024-04-25 |via=www.imdb.com}}</ref> |
Catherine was a featured dancer in short films, “soundies,” which were produced during the early 1940s. She is billed under her stage name, Princess Aloha.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Princess Aloha {{!}} Actor, Soundtrack |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1471592/ |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite book |last=Basie |first=Count |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ATF0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT262&lpg=PT262&dq=princess+aloha+catherine+basie&source=bl&ots=EVZMbGSVbn&sig=ACfU3U3xRY6zr2wd5eehPJ4Uhn20Kjt0Qw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjvho2tod6FAxXwFVkFHQT_Ans4ChDoAXoECAMQAw#v=onepage&q=princess%20aloha%20catherine%20basie&f=false |title=Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie |date=2016-12-14 |publisher=U of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-1-4529-5320-5 |pages=153 |language=en}}</ref> Princess Aloha is the featured act with Andy Iona and His Orchestra in the 1941 soundie “Hilo Hattie.” The film was produced by Sam Coslow and directed by Josef Berne.<ref>{{Citation |last=Berne |first=Josef |title=Hilo Hattie |type=Short, Music |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26453710/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_7_nm_1_q_Hilo%2520Hattie |access-date=2024-04-25 |others=Princess Aloha, Andy Iona |publisher=RCM Productions}}</ref> She also starred as Princess Aloha with Charles Dorn in “My Little Grass Shack” in 1942.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385109/fullcredits |title=My Little Grass Shack (1942) - IMDb |access-date=2024-04-25 |via=www.imdb.com}}</ref> |
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== Personal Life == |
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== Philanthropy and Activism == |
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Revision as of 21:17, 25 April 2024
Early Life and Career
Catherine Morgan Basie was born on April 11, 1914 in Cleveland, Ohio.[1][2] She was a champion backstroke swimmer in high school and an Olympic hopeful. Unable to adequately train for the 1936 Olympics due to a lack of financial support, Catherine ended her athletic career and began pursuing dancing. At 16 years old she joined the vaudeville act, the Whitman Sisters and became part of a trio of dancers which included Alice Whitman and Jeni LeGon known as the “Snake Hips Queens.”[2][3][4][5] She was also an accomplished singer and one of the original performers at the Copacabana nightclub in New York.[6]
Catherine was a featured dancer in short films, “soundies,” which were produced during the early 1940s. She is billed under her stage name, Princess Aloha.[7] [8] Princess Aloha is the featured act with Andy Iona and His Orchestra in the 1941 soundie “Hilo Hattie.” The film was produced by Sam Coslow and directed by Josef Berne.[9] She also starred as Princess Aloha with Charles Dorn in “My Little Grass Shack” in 1942.[10]
Personal Life
Philanthropy and Activism
- ^ "Catherine L. "Katy" Morgan Basie (1914-1983) -..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2024-04-25.
- ^ a b Congress, United States (1971). Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ^ Mosbrook, Joe (2003). Cleveland Jazz History (2nd ed.). Northeast Ohio Jazz Society. p. 50.
- ^ "Whitman Sisters [biography]:Biography Description: Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress". web.archive.org. 2024-02-21. Retrieved 2024-04-25.
- ^ Basie, Count (2016-12-14). Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie. U of Minnesota Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-1-4529-5320-5.
- ^ "Catherine Basie Obituary". Herald News. April 12, 1983. pp. B - 13.
- ^ "Princess Aloha | Actor, Soundtrack". IMDb. Retrieved 2024-04-25.
- ^ Basie, Count (2016-12-14). Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie. U of Minnesota Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-1-4529-5320-5.
- ^ Berne, Josef, Hilo Hattie (Short, Music), Princess Aloha, Andy Iona, RCM Productions, retrieved 2024-04-25
- ^ My Little Grass Shack (1942) - IMDb. Retrieved 2024-04-25 – via www.imdb.com.