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Belle Baker, the Glossary

Belle Baker (born Bella Becker; December 25, 1893 in New York City – April 29, 1957, in Los Angeles) was a Jewish American singer and actress.^[1]

59 relations: Actor, Akmenė, Al Jolson, All of Me (jazz standard), American Jewish Committee, American Jews, Atlantic City (1944 film), Billboard (magazine), Blue Skies (Irving Berlin song), California, Charing Cross Road (film), Child labor in the United States, Dinah Shore, Dorothy Jardon, Eddie Cantor, Emigration of Jews from Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe, He'd Have to Get Under – Get Out and Get Under (to Fix Up His Automobile), Herbert Baker (screenwriter), History of the Jews in Russia, Irving Berlin, Irving Miller, Jacob Pavlovich Adler, Jazz, Jewish assimilation, John McCormack (tenor), John Steel (singer), Judy Garland, Lew Leslie, Lexington Avenue, Los Angeles, Lower East Side, Marilyn Cooper, Maurice Abrahams, Musical film, My Yiddishe Momme, Nazi Germany, Oscar Hammerstein I, Patti Page, Peggy Lee, Ragtime, Ragtime Cowboy Joe, Sarah Bernhardt, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Silent film, Singing, Song of Love (1929 film), Sophie Tucker, Sound film, Technicolor, The Barry Sisters, ... Expand index (9 more) »
Jewish actresses
Pathé Records artists

Actor

An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a production.

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Akmenė

Akmenė is a city in northern Lithuania.

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Al Jolson

Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson,; May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was a Lithuanian-born American singer, actor, and vaudevillian. Belle Baker and al Jolson are Jewish singers.

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All of Me (jazz standard)

"All of Me" is a popular song and jazz standard written by Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons in 1931.

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American Jewish Committee

The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is a civil rights group and Jewish advocacy group established on November 11, 1906.

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American Jews

American Jews or Jewish Americans are American citizens who are Jewish, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion.

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Atlantic City (1944 film)

Atlantic City is a 1944 American musical romance film directed by Ray McCarey and starring Constance Moore.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Blue Skies (Irving Berlin song)

"Blue Skies" is a popular song, written by Irving Berlin in 1926.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Charing Cross Road (film)

Charing Cross Road is a 1935 British musical romance film directed by Albert de Courville and starring John Mills, June Clyde, Derek Oldham and Belle Baker.

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Child labor in the United States

Child labor in the United States was a common phenomenon across the economy in the 19th century.

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Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore; February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, television personality, and the chart-topping female vocalist of the 1940s. Belle Baker and Dinah Shore are Jewish American actresses, Jewish singers and Jewish women singers.

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Dorothy Jardon

Dorothy Jardon (born Mary Jardon;1900 United States Federal Census June 1, 1883 – September 30, 1966)California, Death Index, 1940-1997 was an American soprano and actress. Belle Baker and Dorothy Jardon are singers from New York City.

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Eddie Cantor

Eddie Cantor (born Isidore Itzkowitz; January 31, 1892 – October 10, 1964) was an American comedian, actor, dancer, singer, songwriter, film producer, screenwriter and author. Belle Baker and Eddie Cantor are American vaudeville performers, Jewish singers and Victor Records artists.

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Emigration of Jews from Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe

Between 1933 and 1945, a large number of Jews emigrated from Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe.

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He'd Have to Get Under – Get Out and Get Under (to Fix Up His Automobile)

"He'd Have to Get Under – Get Out and Get Under (to Fix Up His Automobile)" is one of the lengthier titles in the history of popular songs.

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Herbert Baker (screenwriter)

Herbert Baker (born Herbert Joseph Abrahams; December 25, 1920, New York City – June 30, 1983, Encino, Los Angeles, California) was a songwriter and screenwriter for television and films.

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History of the Jews in Russia

The history of the Jews in Russia and areas historically connected with it goes back at least 1,500 years.

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Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin; ישראל ביילין; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and songwriter. Belle Baker and Irving Berlin are American vaudeville performers.

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Irving Miller

Irving Miller (c. 1903 – December 24, 1980) was an American rabbi, Jewish leader, and Zionist.

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Jacob Pavlovich Adler

Jacob Pavlovich Adler (Yiddish: יעקבֿ פּאַװלאָװיטש אַדלער; born Yankev P. Adler; February 12, 1855 – April 1, 1926)IMDB biography was a Jewish actor and star of Yiddish theater, first in Odessa, and later in London and in New York City's Yiddish Theater District.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jewish assimilation

Jewish assimilation (התבוללות, hitbolelut) refers either to the gradual cultural assimilation and social integration of Jews in their surrounding culture or to an ideological program in the age of emancipation promoting conformity as a potential solution to historic Jewish marginalization.

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John McCormack (tenor)

John Francis McCormack, KSG, KSS, KHS (14 June 1884 – 16 September 1945), was an Irish lyric tenor celebrated for his performances of the operatic and popular song repertoires, and renowned for his diction and breath control.

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John Steel (singer)

John W. Steel (January 11, 1895 – June 25, 1971; sometimes referred to as John Steele) was an American tenor. Belle Baker and John Steel (singer) are American vaudeville performers and singers from New York City.

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Judy Garland

Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922June 22, 1969) was an American actress, singer, and dancer. Belle Baker and Judy Garland are American radio personalities and American vaudeville performers.

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Lew Leslie

Lew Leslie (born Lewis Lessinsky; April 15, 1888 – March 10, 1963) was a Jewish American writer and producer of Broadway shows.

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Lexington Avenue

Lexington Avenue, often colloquially abbreviated as "Lex", is an avenue on the East Side of Manhattan in New York City.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Lower East Side

The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a historic neighborhood in the southeastern part of Manhattan in New York City.

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Marilyn Cooper

Marilyn Cooper (December 14, 1934 – April 22, 2009) was an American actress known primarily for her work on the Broadway stage. Belle Baker and Marilyn Cooper are Jewish American actresses, Jewish actresses and Jewish singers.

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Maurice Abrahams

Maurice Abrahams (March 18, 1883 – April 13, 1931) was an American songwriter and music publisher, who was successful in the early years of the 20th century.

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Musical film

Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.

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My Yiddishe Momme

My Yiddishe Momme (א יידישע מאמע) is a song written by Jack Yellen (words and music) and Lew Pollack (music), first recorded by Willie Howard, and made famous in vaudeville by Belle Baker and by Sophie Tucker, and later by the Barry Sisters.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Oscar Hammerstein I

Oscar Hammerstein I (8 May 1846 – 1 August 1919) was a German-born businessman, theater impresario, and composer in New York City.

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Patti Page

Clara Ann Fowler (November 8, 1927 – January 1, 2013), better known by her stage name Patti Page, was an American singer.

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Peggy Lee

Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002), known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, and actress whose career spanned seven decades. Belle Baker and Peggy Lee are American radio personalities.

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Ragtime

Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, is a musical style that had its peak from the 1890s to 1910s.

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Ragtime Cowboy Joe

"Ragtime Cowboy Joe" is a popular western swing song.

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Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt (born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including by Alexandre Dumas ''fils'', Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand.

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Scranton, Pennsylvania

Scranton is a city in and the county seat of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue).

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Singing

Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice.

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Song of Love (1929 film)

Song of Love is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Belle Baker and Ralph Graves.

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Sophie Tucker

Sophie Tucker (born Sofia Kalish; January 13, 1886 – February 9, 1966) was an American singer, comedian, actress, and radio personality. Belle Baker and Sophie Tucker are Jewish American actresses and Jewish singers.

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Sound film

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.

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Technicolor

Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating back to 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.

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The Barry Sisters

Minnie Bagelman (April 6, 1923 – October 31, 1976) and Clara Bagelman (October 17, 1920 – November 22, 2014),NOTE: Claire Barry was not born in 1923, the year that had previously been cited as her year of birth, but in 1920, as all notices of her death give her age as 94, and her gravestone cites 1920 as her year of birth. Belle Baker and the Barry Sisters are Jewish women singers.

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The Eveready Hour

The Eveready Hour was the first commercially sponsored variety program in the history of broadcasting.

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The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros.

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This Is Your Life (American franchise)

This Is Your Life is an American reality documentary series broadcast on NBC radio from 1948 to 1952, and on NBC television from 1952 to 1961.

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Tobacco Road (play)

Tobacco Road is a play by Jack Kirkland first performed in 1933, based on the 1932 novel of the same name by Erskine Caldwell.

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Torch song

A torch song is a sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments an unrequited or lost love, either where one party is oblivious to the existence of the other, where one party has moved on, or where a romantic affair has affected the relationship.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Baker

, The Eveready Hour, The Jazz Singer, This Is Your Life (American franchise), Tobacco Road (play), Torch song, Vaudeville, Victoria Theatre (Hammerstein's), Ziegfeld Follies, Zionism.

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Jewish actresses

Pathé Records artists

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