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Crabtree, Lotta
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Birth Date :
10/11/2026
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New York City
Death Date :
1924
[b]Crabtree, Lotta,[/b] 1847–1924, American actress, b. New York City. A protégée of Lola Montez, she became, while still a child, a favorite in California mining camps with her sprightly singing, dancing, and reciting. In 1867 she scored her first success in New York City in a dramatization of Dickens's Old Curiosity Shop, and thereafter she performed in burlesque and comic pieces, captivating large audiences. She retired in 1891.
See biography by D. Dempsey (1968).
See biography by D. Dempsey (1968).
