Provided by Wikipedia Eleanore Whitney (April 12, 1917 – November 1, 1983) was an American film actress and tap dancer. She was born on April 12, 1917, in Cleveland, Ohio. At the age of 10, she began studying dance under Bill Robinson and performed in vaudeville before being cast in a number of motion pictures, many of them musical-comedies.
Whitney was married in 1939 to attorney Frederick Backer. She moved to New York with her husband and did not return to acting.
