Bambi waited cautiously until her best friends, Coccinelle and April Ashley, had safely undergone procedures from the late 50s before doing the same herself. Each night required extraordinary courage.

Bambi waited cautiously until her best friends, Coccinelle and April Ashley, had safely undergone procedures from the late 50s before doing the same herself. Each night required extraordinary courage.

Bambi still stands — proud, elegant, unbowed — in a life spanning World War II to “Harry Potter.” When she first stepped onstage, the world had no words for someone like her.

Bambi waited cautiously until her best friends, Coccinelle and April Ashley, had safely undergone procedures from the late 50s before doing the same herself. Each night required extraordinary courage.

Bambi still stands — proud, elegant, unbowed — in a life spanning World War II to Harry Potter. When she first stepped onstage, the world had no words for someone like her. So she danced anyway.