Exotic Dancer. Called "The Marilyn Monroe of Burlesque", she built a career around her uncanny resemblance to "The Blonde Bombshell". Born Mary Lee Evans, she was raised in Southern California, was descended on her mother's side from Declaration of Independence signer Robert Morris, lost her father at 11, worked in a world War II aircraft factory, and quit school at 16 to join a traveling chorus line. Left broke and stranded in San Francisco, she discovered the world of stripping and was attracted by the high pay associated with it. After performing for a time on the West Coast, she moved on to Newark, New Jersey, where in 1952 impresario Abe Minsky essentially advised her to hitch her wagon to the rising star of Marilyn Monroe. Over the next years she carried her act far and wide, performing for Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra and perfecting her impersonation to the point that in 1958 Marilyn considered filing suit against her. When Marilyn died in 1962, so did Dixie's career; she lived in the Bahamas for a time where she worked in a hotel before returning to California and a job as a nurse's aide. Dixie had a small role in the 1969 movie "Mafia Girls" and lived in the Mojave Desert near Helendale, California, where she partnered with Jennie Lee in running the Exotic World Burlesque Museum & Striptease Hall of Fame where both girls displayed memorabilia collected over their times before the public. After Jennie died in 1990, Dixie kept running the facility and started the Miss Exotic World Pageant, a beauty contest for strippers, as a way to raise funds and generate publicity. In 2006 she moved her entire operation to Las Vegas, though she continued to reside in Helendale until entering a nursing facility a few months prior to her death. Dixie died of complications from a stroke; her art is preserved on several documentaries made over the years.