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Mabel Withee: From “Crusoe” to “The Cocoanuts”

Broadway and Vaudeville star Mabel Withee passed away 70 years ago today, November 3, 1952. We choose this date for our post because little is known about her birth. Detroit seems to be the consensus origin point, somewhere between 1897 and 1900. Withee was a significant jazz age star; it’s interesting that so little is known about her younger years. She first shows up in association with Al…