Kathleen Rockwell

American dancer Kathleen Rockwell, better known as Klondike Kate, was born in Junction City, Kansas, on October 4, 1873, though some sources dispute the year. She was a ballet dancer and vaudeville star famed for her flirtatious dancing during the Klondike Gold Rush, where she met Alexander Pantages, who later became a major vaudeville and motion picture mogul. Rockwell was known for her ability to entertain and keep hard-working miners happy, even when inebriated. In her later years, she trained Hollywood starlets in the 1940s and appeared on the television show You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx on December 23, 1954, at age 74. She died in obscurity on February 21, 1957, at 83. She was blonde, green-eyed, and slim, with real breasts.