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Also known as Laverie Vallee, Laverie Cooper

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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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
writing language
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 &ndash; 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.

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