An American singer and actress, she was born in Savannah, Georgia, USA on January 20, 1921. She is an American singer and actress with more than 200 records, born of French-Irish descent to a working mother. She made her professional debut at the Roxy Theater in New York at the age of fourteen. She is the lead singer of the Abbott and Costello Show from 1942 to 1946. She continued to perform for decades in clubs and nightclubs. He got married twice and had a son and a daughter. Among the most important works: Duchess of Idaho (1950), Moon Over Las Vegas (1944) and A Wave. She died of myasthenia gravis, an immune muscular disease, at the age of 87.