Belle Baker
Singer, Musical Artist
1893 – 1957
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Who was Belle Baker?
Belle Baker was an American singer and actress. Popular throughout the 1910s and 1920s, Baker introduced a number of ragtime and torch songs including Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" and "My Yiddishe Mama". She performed in the Ziegfeld Follies and introduced a number of Irving Berlin's songs. An early adapter to radio, Baker hosted her own radio show during the 1930s. Eddie Cantor called her “Dinah Shore, Patti Page, Peggy Lee, Judy Garland all rolled into one.”
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- Born
- Dec 25, 1893
New York City - Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Apr 29, 1957
Los Angeles
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on July 23, 2013
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