Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey, (not open to the public). In popular culture "Lotta Crabtree" is a two-act musical comedy set in the California Goldrush. It written by Gerald P. Murphy and is based on the early life of the singer. The show was published by Lazy Bee Scripts in 2010 and was first produced in Yreka, California in 1995 at the Siskiyou Performing Arts Center. Gloria Jean portrayed Crabtree in a 1954 episode of the syndicated anthology series Death Valley Days. Her father failed at gold prospecting while her mother operated a boarding house. Crabtree was briefly under the tutelage of Lola Montez (Yvonne Cross). Paula Morgan played Montez in a subsequent 1955 Death Valley Days episode. Lotta Crabtree was portrayed by Mitzi Gaynor in the 1951 Twentieth Century Fox musical film Golden Girl. **In an ahistorical portrayal, in the first 1959 episode of the television show Bonanza, Crabtree, played by Yvonne De Carlo is hired by mining tycoon Alpheus Troy with the job of luring the youngest Cartwright son, Little Joe (Michael Landon), and holding him for ransom so Alpheus can purchase the timber that grew on the Ponderosa. In 1970, Crabtree appeared again, this time played by Sally Kellerman, searching for a stash of gold left behind in the earlier episode. Gallery References Attribution Bibliography Eichin, Carolyn Grattan, From San Francisco Eastward: Victorian Theater in the American West, (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2020). Watson, Margaret, Silver Theatre: Amusements of Nevada's Mining Frontier, 1850–1864, (Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1964). External links Lotta Crabtree – Broadway Photographs Lotta Crabtree, Fairy Star of the Gold Rush 1847 births 1924 deaths 19th-century American actresses American women comedians Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York) People from Grass Valley, California Actresses from New York City Actresses from San Francisco American stage actresses People from Mount Arlington, New Jersey People from Plumas County, California Comedians from California Comedians from New York City People of the California Gold Rush