Doreen Tracy

Doreen Isabelle Tracey was born on 3 April 1943, in London, England. She is best known for having been a performer on the original Mickey Mouse Club television show from 1955 to 1958. Her parents, Sidney Tracey and Bessie Hay, were an American vaudeville dance team that performed for Allied soldiers during World War II. Her father's original named had been Murray Katzelnick; he had emigrated to the United States from Russia with his Jewish parents as an infant. 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. Tracey learned to dance and sing at an early age, courtesy of the many instructors and performers who worked out at her...