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(ENTERTAINMENT.) Papers of child performer Danellen Mabry. Los Angeles and elsewhere, 1930s-1960s Hundreds of items (0.4 linear feet), mostly photographs and negatives; condition varies but generally strong. Danellen Mabry (1929-2016) was born and raised in Los Angeles, daughter of a chauffeur. She was performing by the age of 5, and her career spanned acting, dance, and music. She toured Hawaii in 1939 as part of the Kopper Kolored Kiddies Review with the Lauretta Butler Dance Studio, the first Black dance studio in Los Angeles. She had several film roles including in "Our Gang Follies of 1938," as a friend of the character Buckwheat. In 1943, she won a scholarship to the Luvenia Dones-Nash Studio of Music. She graduated from the University of Southern California in 1952, was an organist on radio shows, and also performed on marimba. She married Lee Joseph in 1959, and became a high school music teacher. This lot includes two publicity biographies of Mabry from circa 1950, and at least 17 photographs from her early show business life (most captioned on verso). They include a Real Photo postcard of the Kopper Kolored Kiddies in Hawaii, 19 October 1939, with Mabry's message to her father on verso which identifies the children. A group portrait of Mabry with other children in Hawaiian garb likely dates from the same period. A 1936 photo shows her on stage in a scene from the Maxwell Anderson play Winterset. Two photos on heavy stock show young Mabry in costume dancing at the Lauretta Butler studio. She can be seen in a still from the film "Stars on Parade 1944." 6 photographs show her performing as a musician on marimba or organ.  With--hundreds of snapshot photographs and negatives, from the 1930s through 1960s, covering her college years, social life, and family in the Los Angeles area. 3 nightclub photos are from Blue Note in Chicago, and Clifton's Pacific Seas and Cafe Society in Los Angeles.