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A year earlier she was in Hawaii posing for renowned photographer Edward Steichen for a series of ads for the Hawaiian Steamship Company ’ s Matson Line, when she fell through a balcony at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel and landed 30 feet below on a dining room table.

While in the hospital recovering from her injuries, she was introduced to singer Al Jolson who was also convalescing there.

Jolson wound up offering her a role in his upcoming Broadway show Hold Onto Your Hat, that opened in January 1940.

Though her part as a cowgirl was small, she stole the show.

Fans started gathering nightly at her dressing room door at the Shubert Theater, forming the core of what would become a nationwide “ Jinx Falkenburg Fan Club ,” the only national fan club not devoted to a movie star.