• Title
  Tracey Lee papers, photographs and sound recordings, ca. 1930s-1989
• Creator
  Tracey Lee, 1933-
• Call number
  MLMSS 7985/Boxes 1-2, 7-8
  MLMSS 7985/Boxes 3X-6X
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1930s-1989
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Musical Sound Recordings, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Clippings, Photographs
• Reference code
  152200
• Physical Description
  1.11 metres of textual, graphic material and sound recordings (4 boxes, 4 outsize boxes)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Tracey Lee (born Maxwell Ritchie in 1933) won first prize in a talent quest in a Manly Theatre dressed as Carmen Miranda. While still at high school, his mother took him to see the all-male Kiwi Revue, a New Zealand troupe of ex-servicemen, with three female impersonators.
  
  His own career as a female impersonator began in the 1950s at Sydney's Artists Balls and his first professional part in 1953, at the Stork Club (Tom Ugly's Point). The character `Tracey Lee' was created in 1959 while working at Andres, one of Sydney's top nightspots. He performed all around in the world in many famous caberets, Carrousel, Drap D’Or on the Champs Elysees, Follies Pigalle, L’Indifferant and Chez Nous in Berlin. He starred in many stage musicals including Hello Hollywood with Normie Rowe (1975) and appeared as a television and film actor for The Set (1970), Demolition (1978) and one episode of Chopper Squad (1978).
  
  Reference:
  SL magazine, Vol. 3, no. 4 (Summer 2010/2011)
  I dared to be different : an autobiography / by Tracy Lee (Parts 1 and 2)
• Scope and Content
  This collection of material largely comprises photographs and news clippings covering the career of Tracey Lee from the 1950s through to the 1980s.
  
  BOX 1
  Typed manuscript for `I dared to be different : an autobiography / by Tracey Lee (Parts 1 and 2). Includes a letter from Tracey Lee to Dorothy Lamour with her signature and approval to write a forward.
  
  News clippings, theatre programmes and flyers concerning publicity, 1973-1989
  
  BOX 2
  1 folder of photographs, 1930-1989?
  2 photograph albums, 1963-1980
  
  BOX 3X
  Scrapbook containing photographs, newsclippings and theatre programmes, 1950-1976
  1 cartoon of Tracey Lee drawn and signed by Tony Rafty, 1979
  3 flyers for The Importance of Being Ernest at the Bondi Pavilion Theatre, 1986
  1 programme for the movie The Set (1976)
  1 signboard promoting Noel Harrison and Tracey Lee in the cabaret `Room at the Top’, 1963
  
  BOXES 4X-6X
  Albums of photographs, 1930s-1989
• Finding Aids
  For a detailed content list of the performance tapes (Boxes 7-8) contact Manuscripts Section -
• Subject
  Female impersonators--Australia.
  Cross-dressing--Australia.
  Entertainers, Australian--20th century.
  Scrapbooks.
  Performing arts--Australia.
  Theater programs--Australia.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20035827

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