'She Was My Idol.' A Daughter Remembers Her Dance Star Mother
Decades ago, Dorothy Toy was a Broadway performer and half of a Vaudeville dance act. At StoryCorps, her daughter, Dorlie Fong, shared memories of the mom she remembers as talented and glamorous.
In the late 1930s, after years on the Vaudeville circuit, Dorothy Toy debuted on Broadway with her dance partner Paul Wing — known together as famous dance duo, Toy & Wing.
Decades later, her daughter, Dorlie Fong, had hoped to bring Toy to StoryCorps to share her story, but Toy died in 2019 at age 102 before that was possible.
Recently, Fong shared memories from
