Dancers: Bebe DanielsDrypoint and color aquatint, printed a la poupée; ca. 1925; 3/150 (only 10 printed); printed by the artist on thin laid paper, 23-3/8 x 19"; from artist's wife's collection, her red stamp in lower margin.

Bebe Daniels, born Phyllis Virginia Daniels, was born in Dallas, Texas on January 14, 1901. Her parents were both in the theater business and together they operated a traveling stock company. Bebe began acting as a child and was in films by the age of seven, after her family had settled in Los Angeles.

A long and prolific career included silent films and musicals under contract with RKO and Warner Brothers
studios, as well as "talkies," stage work, dance choreography, and film production. She toured throughout the U.S. and in Europe as a dancer and actor, remaining in London for the duration of the Second World War and taking a job as a radio personality for the BBC, in an effort to uplift British listeners throughout the conflict.