Vickie Henderson(1926-2015)

Born in Alabama, Vickie Henderson moved to New York City as a child and was educated in the public schools, graduating from George Washington High School in 1944. To finance her singing and dancing lessons,she worked as an elevator operator in a Manhattan office building and worked on the stage in New York City (most notably as a dancer in the 1946 revival of Show Boat) until she received her big break as a member of the London tour of Finian's Rainbow in 1947. Once reaching Europe, she decided to stay, and appeared in night clubs from London and Paris to Istanbul and Milan, as well as appearing in a number of motion pictures. After her marriage in 1950, she settled in Switzerland, where for many years, she was the owner, operator, and star attraction at Geneva's Cafe Monique.