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She was born Adele Marie Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska to Frederick Austerlitz (- 1924), a Vienna-born brewer, and his wife, Ann Gelius (- 1975).

When she was five years old she had a successful vaudeville act with her younger brother Fred Astaire that developed into a celebrated adult stage career on Broadway. She was, in fact, the bigger star of the two during their time performing together.

On May 9 1932, she retired from the stage to marry Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish ( August 29 1905Events January-April January 22 Massacre of Russian demonstrators at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, one of the triggers of the abortive Russian Revolution of 1905. January 26 The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier - March 23March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (83rd in Leap years). There are 283 days remaining. Events 752 Stephen II becomes Pope. 1568 Peace of Longjumeau ends the Second War of Religion in France. Again Catherine de Medici and Charle 1944Events World War II January January 4 The Battle of Monte Cassino begins. January 5 Murder of Danish playwright Kaj Munck January 17 British forces, in Italy, cross the Garigliano River. January 20 The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin;), the second son of the 9th DukeVictor Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire ( May 31, 1868 May 6, 1938), was a Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for West Derbyshire ( 1891- 1908), Governor General of Canada ( 1916- 1921), and Colonial Secretary ( 1922- 1924). Beginnin of Devonshire, and moved to IrelandThe island of Ireland ire in Irish, Airlann in Ulster Scots) is the third-largest island in Europe. It lies on the west side of the Irish Sea, close to the island of Great Britain. It is composed of the Republic of Ireland in the south and Northern Irelan, where they lived at Lismore CastleLismore Castle is a castle in County Waterford in the Republic of Ireland. It was owned by Sir Walter Raleigh, then by Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, and by his descendants up to another Richard Boyle, 4th Earl of Cork & 3rd Earl of Burlington (earlier. She had three children, a daughter (in 1933Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s Years: 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 See also 1933 in aviation 1933 in film 1933 in literature 1933 in mu) and twin sons (in 1935), all of whom died soon after birth. Adele Cavendish married, on April 20, 1947, as her second husband, Col. Kingman Douglass , an American investment banker and Air Force officer who was an assistant director of the Central Intelligence Agency; he died in 1971.

She is said to have had a lesbian relationship with Mercedes de Acosta and was known for her delightfully ribald personality. According to the memoirs of Richard McKenzie (husband of Fred's daughter, Ava), Adele, aka Dellie, was playing Scrabble with her brother when he noticed that she had started a word with the letters C-U-N. He protested at what appeared to be an emerging vulgarity, though Adele later told Ava, "I could have been spelling anything! Like cunnilingus."

She died in Tucson, Arizona.