1. Doreen Isabelle Tracey was a British-born American performer who appeared on the original Mickey Mouse Club television show from 1955 to 1959.
12 Facts About Doreen Tracey
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Doreen Tracey emigrated to the United States from Russia with his Jewish parents as an infant.
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When Doreen was four, her family returned to the United States, where her father first ran a nightclub, then opened a dance studio in Hollywood, California.
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Doreen Tracey learned to dance and sing at an early age, courtesy of the many instructors and performers who worked out at her father's studio.
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Doreen Tracey's first professional work was an uncredited singing and dancing bit in the musical film The Farmer Takes a Wife.
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Doreen Tracey appeared for all three seasons of the show's original run.
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Doreen Tracey was cast as Scraps, the Patchwork Girl, in a musical number from the proposed live-action Disney film The Rainbow Road to Oz on an episode of the Disneyland television show in September 1957.
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The movie was never made, and when the Mickey Mouse Club was cancelled in 1958, Doreen Tracey switched to singing live at concerts and teen nightclubs.
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Doreen Tracey ended her career as a performer by touring American military bases in South Vietnam and Thailand and performing lead vocals for a rock group called "Doreen and the Invaders".
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Doreen Tracey later reconciled with Disney and expressed regret at having posed for the photos.
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Doreen Tracey married Robert Washburn and had a son, but the marriage ended in divorce.
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In 2018, after having cancer for two years, Doreen Tracey died of pneumonia at a hospital in Thousand Oaks, California at the age of 74.