Critchfield, Lee (c. 1909–)
Critchfield, Lee (c. 1909–)
American film and vaudeville dancer. Born c. 1909 in Los Angeles, California.
Trained with Ernest Belcher at his Los Angeles school and appeared in many of his films by age 18; performed on live theater stages, vaudeville, and Prologs, mainly with Fanchon and Marco's West Coast Deluxe Theaters; mastered playing Marimbaphone, a combination of marimba and xylophone created by Edward Mills, which she danced upon.
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