Gracie Deagon


Grace O'Connor Deagon, known professionally as Gracie Deagon, was an American vaudevillian, stage and radio actress and writer, known for her exceptionally unaffected child impersonations,

Early life and career

Raised in Springfield, Ohio, Deagon was a daughter of the then popular vaudeville team Kitty and Edwin H. Deagon ; her uncle was Broadway actor Arthur Deagan.
In 1924, Deagon provided the lyrics to Belle Baker's "Pretending", the first song composed by the already famous singer.
During her vaudeville career, Deagon had three straight men. The first, from 1912 to 1922, was her then husband Homer Dickinson; then came Wilbur—a.k.a. Jack—Mack. Deagan's third and final partner, from 1926 until at least February 1932, was Charlie Cannefax.
In the summer of 1934, Deagon and fellow vaudevillian Jack Usher co-starred in the radio sitcom Babs and Don, scripted by Deagon and airing on the "Nation's Station", WLW in Cincinnati.

Personal life

Thrice married and thrice divorced, Deagon was the wife of fellow vaudevillian Homer Cissero Dickinson from 1911 to 1918, 1918 to 1921,
and 1921 to 1922. They had one child, a son, Homer J. Dickinson.
Predeceased by her son, Deagon was residing in Costa Mesa, California as of April 1967

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