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Dorothy Deborah Wegman Raphaelson (November 27, 1904 – November 7, 2005) was an American dancer, Ziegfeld Girl, vaudeville performer, and novelist.
Nov 12, 2005 · Dorothy Wegman Raphaelson, who 80 years ago in chiffon, silk, feathers and lace floated across Jazz Age stages as a Ziegfeld Girl and went on to outlive all but one of her fellow dancers, died on...
Nov 7, 2005 · Former Ziegfeld girl. Born Dorothy Deborah Wegman in New York she was pushed on stage by her mother after the death of her father in 1919. She joined Florenz Ziegfeld Follies in 1920. Starred in The Passing Show in 1921, one of the most spectacular shows to date.
Nov 16, 2005 · Dorothy Wegman Raphaelson, 100, one of the last surviving Ziegfeld Girls who performed in Florenz Ziegfeld’s “Follies,” died Nov. 7 at her home in New York City of natural causes of aging.
Dec 4, 2005 · Last month, when the former Ziegfeld dancer Dorothy Wegman Raphaelson died in Manhattan at 100, Mrs. Travis became the sole survivor of a bygone era of song and dance, when the Follies shared...
She played a role in the Chinese Revolution, and died in Moscow in 1927. Raphaelson was married for 56 years to Dorothy Wegman, known to friends and family as Dorshka. The name was given to her by her friend Marion Benda, a fellow dancer in the Ziegfeld Follies in the early 1920s.
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Dec 30, 2010 · She appeared in a few Ziegfeld productions, including the Follies of 1925. She fell in love with playwright Samson Raphaelson (author of The Jazz Singer) and the two were married for fifty years. They had a son named Joel and a daughter named Naomi. Wegman passed away in 2005 at age 100!
