Myrna Darby - Ziegfeld Showgirl
by Chuck Staley
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Myrna Darby - Ziegfeld Showgirl
Artist
Chuck Staley
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Digital Art - Colorized Photo
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Myrna Darby was a Ziegfeld Follies Showgirl.
She was born on April 10, 1908 Connellsville, Pennsylvania. Her father, Daniel Darby, worked for a railroad company. Myrna attended business school and briefly worked as a stenographer. She made her stage debut in a Pittsburgh production of Abie's Irish Rose. At the age of seventeen she moved to New York City and won a beauty contest run by a newspaper. Florenz Ziegfeld saw her and hired her to be in his 1926 Broadway show No Foolin. The following year she appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies. Critics said she was the most beautiful woman ever to appear in the show. She had blonde hair, blue eyes, and a voluptuous figure.
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January 20th, 2023
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