Maryon Vadie

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Maryon Vadie, born Maryon Elizabeth Dunbar on December 25, 1895, in Springfield, Massachusetts, was an American dancer and vaudeville performer in the 1910s and 1920s. She grew up in Los Angeles, trained as a dancer in Pasadena and New York, and in 1914 appeared as a featured dancer in a Los Angeles spring pageant. She toured the United States and Canada, often billed as "America's Peerless Danseuse," and her photograph was on the cover of Variety in 1916. She danced in Broadway's Cinderella in 1920 and frequently performed with her first husband, violinist Ota Gygi (Ludwig Feinland). Vanity Fair called her "the American Genée" in 1922.

In 1924 she planned to open a summer dancing school in New Jersey and promoted the Maryon Vadie Dancers, a group of six young women she mentored. In 1928 she organized a 20‑performer revue for high‑class stage entertainment.

Vadie married Ota Gygi in 1917. Her second husband was Harry Green; they married in 1936 and moved to Arizona in 1950. She died in February 1975 in Tucson, Arizona, at age 79.