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Chilton married her dancing partner, Maceo Thomas, in 1927. They divorced in the early 1940s, and both soon remarried. She married again in 1943, to Louis Fite
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Chilton was performing as a dancer and singer in
Chicago from her teens. She and Thomas began touring together as a "fancy dance act" by early 1927. They were often billed as "Creole dancers". Theirs are really winged feet," commented an Iowa newspaper in 1929. "That seems to be the only solution for
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the rapidity of their motion. They apparently dance on the air." In 1933 they had a novelty act that involved
Chilton playing piano while Thomas danced on dinner plates.
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