Mademoiselle Dazie


Daisy Ann Peterkin, known by the stage name Mlle. Dazie, was an American vaudeville and Ziegfeld Follies dancer at the turn of the 20th century. She was a toe-dancer.

Biography

Born on September 16, 1884, in St. Louis, Dazie's first appearance in vaudeville was as "Le Domino Rouge" in an act where she wore a red mask. After she got rid of the mask, she was billed as "Mlle. Dazie" and it was under this name that she appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies. She toured the B. F. Keith Circuit in a ballet pantomime, L'Amour d'Artiste, and headlined the Palace in 1917 in another ballet pantomime directed by Herbert Brenon. She headlined The Garden of Punchinello ballet directed by Herbert Brenon at the Palace. She also appeared in La Belle Paree. Her last stage performance was in Aphrodite, in 1919.
She married Cornelius Fellowes, president of the St. Nicholas Hygeia Ice Company and son of a famous horseman. A prize-winning racehorse named after her has lineage including several successful racehorses.
She died on August 12, 1952, in Miami Beach, aged 67.

Legacy

Gladys Brockwell played Mlle. Dazie in the silent film Spangles, 1926.

Broadway

The Belle of New York, January 22, 1900Ziegfeld Follies of 1907, July 8, 1907Ziegfeld Follies of 1908, June 15, 1908La Belle Paree / Bow-Sing / Tortajada, March 20, 1911La Belle Paree, September 11, 1911The Merry Countess, August 20, 1912Maid in America, February 18, 1915Aphrodite, November 24, 1919

Films

The Black Panther's Cub, 1921