- At 103 she was still managing her 880 acre ranch.
- Sister of Pearl Eaton, Mary Eaton and Charles Eaton. In 2003 Doris penned the memoir "The Days We Danced" along with Charles and another brother Joseph, recalling their heyday in vaudeville and on Broadway.
- Original member of the Ziegfield Follies of 1919.
- Hosted a local TV show in Detroit for seven years and became a millionaire.
- During the 30s offers were few and far between for all four of the Eaton entertainers. Pearl, Mary and Charles became alcoholics. Doris says not drinking is one of the reasons for her longevity.
- She was the last surviving Ziegfeld girl.
- Doris met her second husband, businessman Paul Travis, while she was teaching dancing at the Arthur Murray dance studios. He was a client. They had a ten-year courtship before finally marrying in 1949.
- In 1929 Doris sang the premier performance of "Singin' In The Rain," a song written for her and which later was immortalized in the play and Gene Kelly movie by the same name.
- In 1992 she graduated cum laude from the University of Oklahoma, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Oakland University in 2004.
- At age 101, pursuing a Masters Degree in Liberal Studies at Oklahoma University. (April 2005)
- Appeared annually at a Broadway AIDS Benefit in her later years.
- The press referred to the Eaton family as 'The Seven Little Eatons' referring to them being an all showbiz family. This was not true. Evelyn was the eldest child. She had ambitions for the family and pushed her brothers and sisters hard. She was a stage manager and lived her long life in frustration, bitterness and self-pity because her three children did not share her love of the theatre. Brother Robert was never lured into showbiz. Brother Joseph gave up on theatre at an early stage. Sister Pearl (1898 - 1958) split her time between acting and choreographing, becoming quite accomplished at the latter. She was murdered in her Manhatten Beach apartment and the crime is still unsolved. Sister Mary (1901 - 1948) went on to achieve the greatest fame, receiving top billing with Eddie Cantor in Kid Boots. After marrying 'three drunks' she died young of severe metamorphosis of the liver. And brother Charles (1910 - 2004) began very young and was finished in theatre and films by the end of the '30s.
- Her second husband was one of her pupils. They married sometime in the 1940s and did not have any children.
- Her first husband was twice her age. He was the producer of the Gorham Follies. He died from a heart attack after they had been married less than one year.
- When she was underage, to evade child labor laws, she used the stage names Doris Levant and Lucille Levant. Once she turned 16, she started using her real name.
- According to Jamie Brotherton, who wrote a "Classic Images" article on Doris, she engaged in a long romantic relationship with songwriter Nacio Herb Brown (1896-1964), who wrote "Singin' in the Rain" and "Doll Dance" for her, both songs introduced by Doris in "The Hollywood Music Box Revue" in 1927.
- Her first husband, stage producer Joe Gorham, who ran the Gorham Theatrical Enterprises of Chicago, featured Doris in his "Gorham Follies" in 1922. They married in January of 1923. The marriage was a brief, but very unhappy one. Her abusive husband died of a heart attack in October of the same year.
- In 1998, Doris returned to Broadway and the New Amsterdam Theatre, the same theatre (albeit rebuilt) where she had first appeared in 1918, 80 years earlier, to participate in the Easter Bonnet Competition, a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. She is an active Honorary President of the Ziegfeld Club, Inc.
- Theatrical Performances: Morey Carey's chicken of 1917 39 performances. Ziegfeld Follies of 1918 151 performances. Ziegfeld Follies of 1919 171 performances. Ziegfeld Follies of 1910 123 performances. No Other Girl 1924 56 performances. Big Boy 1925 120 performances. The Sap 1925 32 performances. Excess Bagagge 1927 216 performances. Cross My Heart 1927 64 performances.
- Aunt of Evelyn Eaton.
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