Career
She performed for Barnum & Bailey and Disneyland. In 1905, Kline immigrated to the United States with a dance troupe. She lived at the Clara de Hirsch home for immigrant girls.
She started as a burlesque dancer, but moved on to perform in the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus as Tiny Duchéest
There, she met rodeo trick rider Otto Kreinbrink (stage name Otto Kline). When he died during a ride, she took over and learned acrobatic tricks, including the "aerial iron jaw act", where she would be suspended by the mouth on a long glide wire.
In 1961, Walt Disney began a search for a Tinker Bell to wow crowds at Disneyland. Kline was hired to glide down a wire connecting the Matterhorn to Sleeping Beauty"s Castle.
She retired and died in 1964.
Leaving the bulk of her estate to the Clara de Hirsch Home.
