1583) Hope Dare

Hope Dare (born Rose Lutzinger, 1909 - 1999). American dancer and showgirl.
When she was seventeen she moved to Los Angeles and married David Swing Ricker, a forty-seven year old promoter. She was named "Miss Southern California" in a beauty contest and danced in the Fanchon & Marco stage shows. Tragically, her husband David died following an appendectomy in 1929. Soon after Hope moved to New York City and appeared in the Broadway show Melody.  She adopted a stage name — Hope Dare — that expressed her optimistic outlook on the world, with a nod to life’s challenges and her readiness to take them on.
Hope also starred in the 1932 film She Wanted A Millionaire. In 1934 she started dancing with the Ziegfeld Follies and fell in love with Richard "Dixie" Davis, a married mobster.
After he got a divorce, they were married in 1939. The couple had two children and opened an ice-cream store in Los Angeles.

- "The beautiful redhead also starred in the 1932 film..." https://www-imdb-com.translate.goog/name/nm12551574/bio/?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=it&_x_tr_hl=it&_x_tr_pto=sc&_x_tr_hist=true

- "Ziegfeld described her as “the most beautiful redhead I ever hired.”... Hope, who put on a black wig to hide her red hair, claimed her name was “Rose Rickert.” https://capturedandexposed.com/2021/10/22/arresting-hope-dare/

 

1582) Marion "Kiki" Roberts

Marion "Kiki" Roberts (née Strasmick, 1909 - ?). American dancer and showgirl. She was better known as the girlfriend and moll of American gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond.
At age 17, she was signed as a Ziegfeld girl.
Jack "Legs" Diamond was a major Irish-American bootlegger and mobster of the 1920s and 1930s. There are various accounts as to how Diamond and "Kiki" Roberts met, but one was that she had befriended a lady named Agnes O. Laughlin, who was in turn friends with Diamond and introduced them.
The two soon became lovers, gaining Roberts the celebrity she wanted. Diamond helped Roberts get introduced to New York City choreographers in order to improve her dancing skills.
It is widely believed that Roberts was one of the later people to see Diamond alive before he was gunned down in December 1931.
Not much is known about Marion Roberts after the death of "Legs" Diamond. She did an interview for the Boston American newspaper, recorded in film in 1931, and in 1935, she moved to the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, and by 1937, she was headlining a show titled Crazy Quilt at the Allentown Lyric Theater in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
By the 1940s, she had disappeared from the limelight. Attempts at finding her whereabouts and her death date have been unsuccessful.

- "Marion Roberts the red haired sweetheart of slain gangster chief, Jack (Legs) Diamond, yesterday signed a vaudeville contract." https://www.gettyimages.it/.../marion-roberts.../97295498

- "... Marion "Kiki" Roberts, an auburn-haired woman who Marcus thinks is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen." https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/legs/section4/

- "... and his red-haired girlfriend Marion Kiki Roberts." http://thepublici.blogspot.com/2017/11/calling-judge-crater-chapter-seven.html

 

730) Blanche Mehaffey

Blanche Mehaffey (1908 – 1968). American showgirl and film actress.
She started as a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies before coming to Hollywood to play comedy roles in motion pictures. Show producer Florenz Ziegfeld said she possessed the most beautiful eyes in the entire world. She was among the Baby Stars of 1924 chosen by the Wampas. Others in the group were Clara Bow, Dorothy Mackaill, and Hazel Keener.

- "A 1924 WAMPAS Baby Star, red-haired Blanche Mehaffey had a movie career that lasted from about 1923 - 1938." http://www.b-westerns.com/ladies42.htm

- "Her hair was an auburn color." https://www.morebooks.de/…/blanche-m…/isbn/978-613-6-71773-9

- "... had red hair and appeared in several Westerns..." https://books.google.it/books…

569) Christine Keeler

Christine Margaret Keeler (1942 – 2017). English model and topless showgirl. Her meeting at a dance-club with society osteopath Stephen Ward drew her into fashionable circles. At the height of the Cold War, she became sexually involved with a married government minister, John Profumo, as well as with a Soviet diplomat. A shooting incident between two of her other lovers caused the press to investigate her, revealing that her affairs could be threatening national security. In the House of Commons, Profumo denied any improper conduct but later admitted that he had lied. This incident discredited the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan in 1963 in what became known as the Profumo affair. Keeler was alleged to have been a prostitute and although this was not a criminal offence in itself, Ward was found guilty at trial of being her pimp – a trial only instigated after the embarrassment caused to the government.

- "Because of Christine Keeler, the red-haired, high-priced call girl lounging in the warm sunshine at right..." https://books.google.it/books…

- "Profumo's undoing began when he attended a country estate week-end and met tall, leggy, good-looking, red-haired Christine Keeler, aged 19." https://books.google.it/books…

- "It was at a party at the home of newspaper magnate Lord Astor that Mr. Profumo met the red-haired Keeler, who was swimming naked in the pool at the time." https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/879e1a6d-69e8-49df-aad1-…/…

- "Christine Keeler was stunning, leggy and red-headed and was soon moving in Mayfair’s smartest but not necessarily the most savoury circles." https://www.irishexaminer.com/…/a-very-british-scandal-the-…