Biography

1918 · East St. Louis, Illinois, USA

Born around 1919. The Standard Casting Directory April 1924 lists her as 5 years old, plays child leads and an eccentric dancer.

According to a small item in the Bakersfield Californian printed May 31, 1924, she and her brother Bernard appeared in a dental hygiene film produced by Educational Pictures.

According to an item in an October, 1924, issue of the Los Angeles Times, she performed as part of a dance duo called The Keever Kiddies. The other half of the duo was one Lucille Dunn.

An April 17, 1924, article in the Colton Daily Courier stated that she was skilled in piano, singing, dancing, elocution and "dramatic art" and frequently appeared at charity functions in the Los Angeles area. She became "a very much beloved little girl by all the cripples and shut-ins throughout the territory" through these charity appearances.

In 1924, she appeared in the show "Personality Pets" at the California Valencia Orange Festival in Anaheim, California. Some of the 'Pets' who appeared alongside Keever were Lenore Kingston, Marguerite Kosik, Pluma Noisom, and Betty Alliene Timmons. Keever and all of these other child performers also appeared in a children's bathing beauty pageant, joined by Ruth Sullivan, George Noisom, and others.