- She and her husband, Joseph Santley, were a successful dance team on Broadway and on tour between 1915 and 1930.
- Stage actress; active on Broadway from 1916-1927.
- When her dancing career ended, she and her husband moved to Los Angeles, California, where her husband became a director of musical comedy films.
- Ivy Sawyer was a British-born American cabaret and ballroom dancer, singer, and stage actress.
- After dancing professionally with John Jarrot, Sawyer teamed up with Joseph Santley .
- Sawyer and Joseph Santley were inseparable off stage as well as on, and in addition to their work on Broadway they also toured in vaudeville as a popular double act, dancing and singing hit songs of the day.
- Sawyer was in Irving Berlin 's Music Box Revue (1921 and 1923 editions), Mayflowers (1925, opening the new Forrest Theater), Lucky (1927) and Just Fancy (1927).
- At the end of the 20s, Joseph Santley changed the direction of his career, going to Hollywood where he became a film director. Sawyer went along too, abandoned her career, raised two children and lived to a very great age.
- JThe musical 'Just Fancy' (1927) ran at the Casino Theatre for 79 performances. The music was by Joseph Meyer and Phil Charig , lyrics by Leo Robin , book by Gertrude Purcell and Santley, the latter also producing the show. Sawyer, as Linda Lee Stafford, sang 'Sunday Beau' with Peggy O'Neill, and with Joseph Santley 'Two Loving Arms' and 'You Came Along'.
- Among the early Broadway shows in which she appeared was "Betty" (1916), which ran at the Globe Theatre for 63 performances. The show, which had been very popular in London's West End in 1915 where it ran for about a year, had music by Paul Rubens , book by Frederick Lonsdale and Gladys Unger, lyrics by Adrian Ross and Rubens.
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