Early Life
As a child, Stanley, born as Maude Elsie Aileen Muggeridge in Chicago, Illinois, sang and danced in vaudeville with her older brother Stanley as Stanley and Aileen, with the encouragement of their widowed mother. After her brother left the act, Aileen started performing solo, forming her stage name by reversing the name of the old family billing.
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