6/29/2023 0 Comments After the Music by Palmer![]() ![]() On November 5, Variety falsely reported Bee’s marriage to her pianist, Al Siegel. ![]() At the beginning of November 1920, she decided to go on the road with her own revue called “Oh Bee!” The show, written for her by Herman Timberg, incorporated singing, shimmying, and jazz music provided by her own band. She made her debut in the Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic on July 15, 1918, where she was described as “a singing and dancing soubrette and pianist of unusual magnetism.” She performed the song “I Want To Learn To Jazz Dance” and another song in a program of fifteen numbers, on a bill with leading stars Lillian Lorraine and Bert Williams.įor the next two years, Bee appeared in the Midnight Frolic again in 1919 and in various other Broadway productions along with such top entertainers as Eddie Cantor, Fannie Brice, W.C. Bee Palmer was a very magnetic performer, singing popular songs in a sensuous manner that was guaranteed to shock or attract, and her shimmy dance was highly acclaimed.īee was an attractive blonde of about 5’7” who went to New York to act in vaudeville, where she became a Ziegfeld Girl in 1918. ![]() Bee popularized the shimmy dance, described as “a sinuous and suggestive undulation of hips and shoulders,” and claimed the title “Shimmie Queen” in 1918. “Bee” Palmer (11 September 1894 – 22 December 1967) was born in Chicago, the third of four children born to Charles and Anna Larsen Palmer who had emigrated from Sweden eleven years previously. ![]()
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