Charmion
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Laverie Vallee (née Cooper; July 18, 1875 – February 6, 1949), best known by her stage name Charmion, was an American vaudeville trapeze artist and strongwoman. One of her risqué trapeze acts was captured on film in 1901 by Thomas Edison.
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- Jasmine and the poet
- Emilia Viviani
- Spirit & Form
- Island in the bay
- Charmion Von Wiegand : Improvisations, 1945
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Sacramento
- Place of death
- Santa Ana
- Occupation
- strongman
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
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- Charmion 1897.jpg
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- Charmion
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- English language
- date of death
- 1949-02-06
- date of birth
- 1875-07-18
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Laverie Vallee (née Cooper; July 18, 1875 – February 6, 1949), best known by her stage name Charmion, was an American vaudeville trapeze artist and strongwoman. One of her risqué trapeze acts was captured on film in 1901 by Thomas Edison.
==Career== According to the Journal of Sport History article "Flying, Flirting, and Flexing: Charmion's Trapeze Act, Sexuality, and Physical Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century", she made her debut on December 25, 1897, at Koster and Bial's vaudeville theatre in New York City, although The Sacramento Union lists her performing in Clunie Opera House on Feb 2 of that year.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Charmion” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.