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Birth Name: Beatrice Adelaide Jackson
Born: 12 January 1903 Died: 18 July 1933
Country of origin: 
United States
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Bee Jackson was born on January 12, 1903 in Brooklyn, New York City, USA. She was an actress, known for Lying Wives (1925). She died on July 18, 1933 in Chicago Heights, Cook County, Illinois, USA.
Bee Jackson was a young professional dancer who tried to establish a reputation in the 1920s as the premiere exponent of the "Charleston" steps. Crisscrossing the United States and touring Europe, she boldly promoted herself as the "originator" of the jazzy moves that others had created. To bolster her claims, she needed to publicize herself in the Southern city from which the dance took its name. But the people
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