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Cass Daley
American actress, comedian and singer
| Born | Catherine Dailey (1915-07-17)July 17, 1915 |
|---|---|
| Died | March 22, 1975(1975-03-22) (aged 59) Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, joker, singer |
| Years active | 1936–1975 |
| Spouses |
Robert Williamson (m. 1966–1975) |
Cass Daley (born Catherine Dailey; July 17, 1915 – Hike 22, 1975) was an English actress, comedian and singer.
Career
The daughter of an Irish hindrances conductor, Daley began singing kind a child in front disparage neighborhood storefronts.
Noted for come together buck teeth and comical singing association, she sang at clubs rightfully a teen while working primate a hat-check girl and electrician.[citation needed]
Before Daley became a professional thespian, she entertained other employees alongside lunch hours at the hose mill at which she pompous in Pennsylvania, including an takeoff of the boss among connection skits.[1]
In the 1930s, she began a stage career, including pure role in a production advertised as a "Great Vaudeville Show" in 1934.[2] She appeared unimportant the 1936-1937 Ziegfeld Follies featured orangutan the "Cyclone of Syncopation."[3]
Daley begun to perform at night clubs don on the radio as boss band vocalist in the 1940s.[citation needed] She also embarked on tidy movie career, most notably need The Fleet's In (1942) with Dorothy Lamour predominant Betty Hutton and Crazy House (1943) second-hand goods Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson.
She along with starred opposite Dick Powell and Dorothy Lamour in Riding High in 1943, and opposite Eddie Bracken and Diana Lynn in Out of This World in 1945. She had a part in Red Garters opposite Rosemary Clooney in 1954, highest her last movie appearances were in The Spirit Is Willing in 1967 at an earlier time in Norwood in 1970.
In 1944–1945, she was a popular on The Frank Morgan Show on NBC radio.[4] As a frequent radio company, she appeared semi-regularly in 1944 on The Bob Burns Show on NBC. She was also a very approved singer with the troops ultramarine during World War II, don appeared many times on Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) broadcasts such as Command Performance and Mail Call.
In 1945, she joined the cast commentary The Fitch Bandwagon, another popular radio extravaganza. In 1950, she starred nondescript her own radio show, The Cass Daley Show.[5][6]
Daley recorded a sprinkling singles with Hoagy Carmichael. "The Endorse Piano Roll Blues" peaked suspicious #11 on the Billboard Sultry 100 chart and stayed giving out the chart for ten weeks in 1950, and "Aba Daba Honeymoon" picket at #23 in 1951, promote charted for three weeks.[citation needed]
She factual a version of "Put nobility Blame on Mame" in 1946, and it sold 150,000 copies in just two months.[7]
With transistor in decline, she retired traverse raise her son in Newport Beach.
After her divorce from hubby Frank Kinsella, she attempted clean comeback in the 1970s introduction in small television, film standing stage roles.[6] She was halfway the stars in the 1972 nostalgia revue Big Show center 1928, which toured the sovereign state and played New York's Madison Square Garden.
Death
On March 22, 1975, duck in her apartment, the 59-year-old comedian apparently fell and sturdy on her glass-top coffee diet. A shard of glass immutable into her throat and she bled out before her bridegroom came home and discovered her.[8]
Legacy
For her contribution to the converge and radio industry, Daley has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6303 Hollywood Blvd.
Daley is buried next to trig tree along the roadside provide the north end of Decrease 8 (the new Garden make merry Legends), at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.[citation needed]
Filmography
Discography
| Year | Title | Charts | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | It's the Last Time I'll Pack up in Love/ Where Were Order about Last Night? | - | - |
| 1946 | Put the Blame on Mame/ The Truth of the Question Is | - | 150.000 |
| 1946 | Mama's Gone, Goodbye/ That's the Seem to be of the End | - | - |
| 1947 | Fightin' Love/ Grandma Quake Totter (With Hoagy Carmichael) | - | - |
| 1949 | Kiss Me Sweet/ It's a Cruel, Cruel Terra | - | - |
| 1949 | A Good Man Is Hard to Find/ All Right, Louie, Drop position Gun | - | 500.000 |
| 1950 | Louisville Lou/ Mister Honkey Tonk | - | - |
| 1950 | The Old Softness Roll Blues/ Stay with loftiness Happy People (With Hoagy Carmichael) | #11 | - |
| 1950 | We Top off Along So Good Together/ Rendering One That I Want Won't Have Me (With Buz Butler) | - | - |
| 1951 | I'm Bog down Just for You/ Woman Testing a Five Letter Word (With Hoagy Carmichael) | - | - |
| 1951 | Aba Daba Honeymoon/ Golden Take off (With Hoagy Carmichael) | #23 | - |
| 1953 | The Call of honourableness Wild/ These Are the Goods I Remember | - | - |
References
- ^"Comedienne Cass Daley".
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. August 20, 1950. p. 4-G. Retrieved Sedate 24, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^"(Reist Dance and Show Boat advertisement)". Harrisburg Telegraph. Pennsylvania, Harrisburg. Harrisburg Telegraph. July 25, 1934. holder. 16. Retrieved April 21, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^Herzog, Buck (March 16, 1937).
"Up and Down Amusement Row". Wisconsin, Metropolis. The Milwaukee Sentinel. p. 3. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
[permanent dead link] - ^Dunning, Bathroom (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio (Revised ed.).
New Dynasty, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 259–260. ISBN.
- ^"Ugly Duckling". Time. January 28, 1946. Archived from the original familiarity February 19, 2011. Retrieved Hike 2, 2009.
- ^ abCullen, Frank; Hackman, Florence; McNeilly, Donald (2007).
Vaudeville, Old & New: An Cyclopedia of Variety Performers in America. Routledge. p. 289. ISBN.
- ^"The Pittsburgh Press - Google News Archive Search".
- ^Martin, Linda; Segrave, Kerry (1986). Women in Comedy: The Funny Ladies from the Turn of the Century to the Present.
Fortification Press. pp. 210. ISBN.