Doreen Tracey

Doreen Tracey was one of the Mouseketeers from the original Mickey Mouse Club from 1955 to 1958.
==Life and career==
Tracey was born in London, England. Her parents, Sidney Tracey and Bessie Hay, were an American vaudeville dance team that performed for Allied soldiers during World War II. Her father's original name was Murray Katzelnick; he immigrated to the United States from Russia with his Jewish parents as an infant. When Doreen was four, her family returned to the United States, where her father first ran a nightclub, then opened a dance studio in Hollywood, California.
Tracey learned to dance and sing at an early age, courtesy of the many instructors and performers who worked out at her father's studio. Her first professional work was an uncredited singing and dancing bit in the musical film The Farmer Takes a Wife. At age twelve she auditioned for the Mickey Mouse Club and was hired. She appeared for all three seasons of the show's original run. In 1956, she was featured in the Disney western Westward Ho, the Wagons!, and in the third season of the Mickey Mouse Club, had a role in the serial Annette. She was cast as Scraps, the Patchwork Girl, in a musical number from the proposed live-action Disney film Rainbow Road to Oz, in an episode of the Disneyland television show. The movie was never made, and when the Mickey Mouse Club stopped filming in 1958, Tracey switched to singing live at concerts and teen nightclubs.
She appeared on several television shows, including the episode "April Fool" of ABC's The Donna Reed Show, with James Darren in a guest-starring role as well. Tracey wound up her career as a performer touring American military bases in South Vietnam and Thailand and performing lead vocals for a Filipino rock group. She later worked for Frank Zappa as a publicist, and became an amateur weight-lifter. She posed for the men's magazine Gallery in 1976, wearing her Mouseketeer ears and little else. In 2001, an excerpt from her memoirs, called Confessions of a Mouseketeer, was published in the NPR anthology I Thought My Father Was God. She married Robert Washburn and had a son, but the marriage ended in divorce.
==Gallery==
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Doreen tracy 2.jpg|Doreen Tracy with Don Grady in Mickey Mouse Club.
Doreen.jpg|Doreen Tracey and Annette Funicello
Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeers 1957.jpg|1956 cast photo. Front row; L–R: Annette Funicello, Karen Pendleton, Cubby O'Brien, Sherry Alberoni, Dennis DayRow two: Charley Laney, Sharon Baird, Darlene Gillespie, Jay-Jay SolariRow three: Tommy Cole, Cheryl Holdridge, Larry Larsen, Eileen DiamondRow four: Lonnie Burr, Margene Storey, Doreen TraceyBack row: Jimmie Dodd, Bobby Burgess.
Dinah shore with mouseketters 1956.jpg|Dinah Shore with Sharon, Doreen, Annette, Cubby, Darlene, and Karen at a benefit in Spring of 1956.
ImagesCA70QBU3.jpg|Bobby (Scarecrow) performing a number with Doreen (Scraps) in what would've been Rainbow Road to Oz.
1980 roll call doreen tracy.JPG|Doreen in The Mouseketeer Reunion.
Doreen tracy mickey mouse club story.JPG|Doreen in The Mickey Mouse Club Story
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Category:Females
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