Doreen Tracey, RIP
 Doreen Tracey Singer, Dancer, Actress, Mouseketeer April 13, 1943 – January 10, 2018 |
I would sit there enthralled by the various serials presented and the song and dance numbers and I knew most all of the characters by name ... I guess that comes with steadily watching over time.
One of those original 'mouseketeers' was a little girl named Doreen Tracey. She was much older than me but occupied that place frozen in time afforded by syndication and reruns and therefore she was mine and I was hers as it was with Annette and many of the other young ladies before me.
Over the years I moved on to other television venues as is the case with growing up and sometime in my adulthood I recall reading of her falling on desperate times and having to resort to work of a pornographic nature.
Understanding and being familiar with difficult times myself, I never judged her for this and my focus remained on her as the mouseketeer among the others, case closed.
I was sorry to learn on Wednesday that Doreen Tracey died of pneumonia as a result of a two-year battle with cancer. She was 74 years old. Rest in peace.
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