Gertrude Niesen
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Gertrude Niesen (July 8, 1911 – March 27, 1975) was an American torch singer, actor, comedian, and songwriter who achieved critical success in musicals and films in the 1930s and 1940s.
Early years
As her Swedish father and Russian mother returned from a holiday in Europe, Niesen was born aboard a ship. She aspired for a career on stage as a child and began performing in vaudeville. She attended Brooklyn Heights Seminary, where she discovered and developed a keen interest in music.
Personal life and death
On July 19, 1943, Niesen married Chicago nightclub owner Al Greenfield in Las Vegas. Both married in 1954 but divorced in 1954, then married in 1954, but Niesen died in Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Hollywood, California, at the age of 63, after a long illness.
Career
Niesen began singing in the early 1930s, appearing on radio and in night clubs. She appeared in a Vitaphone short film, Yacht Party (1932), first appeared on film (credited as Gertrude Nissen) with Roger Wolfe Kahn and his Orchestra and Artie Shaw.
Niesen, the featured musician on CBS' The Ex-Lax Big Show (1942), and host of The Show Shop (1942), on NBC-Blue, was on old-time radio. 303 She left The Ex-Lax Big Show in 1935 to perform leads in musical performances of the St. Louis Municipal Opera Theatre in the summer of 1935.
She appeared on Victor, Columbia, and Brunswick in the 1930s, and Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach were the first to record the song "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes."
She appeared in Calling All Stars in 1934 and 1936 in the Ziegfeld Follies. Follow the Girls (1944) and Take a Chance (1932) are two of her Broadway appearances.
Niesen's singing at a cafe in Hollywood resulted in her signing a Universal deal. She also appeared in films, including Top of the Town (1937), in which she performed four songs, Start Cheering (1938), and A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940), in which she performed "I Want to Make with the Happy Times," she co-wrote. Rookies on Parade (1941), This Is the Army (1943), This Is the Army (1943), and Babe Ruth (1948). She co-starred with Jackie Gleason in the 1944 stage musical Follow the Girls, in which she performed "I Want to Get Married," one of her best-known songs. She appeared on Decca Records in the 1940s and 1950s, and the label's self-titled LP was released. In the early 1950s, she appeared on several radio shows and on television.