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Hubert Priorit "Rudy" Vallée (July 28, 1901 – July 3, 1986) was an American singer, guitarist, bandleader, and radio host.

He was one of the first modern pop stars to be compared to the teen idol model.

Early life

Hubert Prior Vallée was born in Island Pond, Vermont, United States, on July 28, 1901, the son of Catherine Lynch and Charles Alphonse Vallée. His maternal grandparents were English and Irish, while his paternal grandparents were French-Canadians from Quebec. Vallée grew up in Westbrook, Maine. On March 29, 1917, he enlisted to fight in World War I, but he was discharged when US Navy officials discovered he was only 15 years old. He had enlisted in Portland, Maine, on the incorrect date of birth of July 28, 1899. After 41 days of active service, he was discharged at the Naval Training Station in Newport, Rhode Island, on May 17, 1917.

Personal life

Vallée has been married four times. In Hollywood, he married Jane Greer on December 2, 1943, but the couple divorced on July 27, 1944. Eleanor, his late wife, who died in 2015, wrote a book titled My Vagabond Lover.

Vallée, who was always faithful to Yale University, never forgot his Maine roots and built an estate on Kezar Lake.

Vallée had "a pleasant mood and a foul mouth... almost certainly the source of his nastiness was the orchestra... his outbursts were mean-spirited, and he didn't care who overheard." "Vallée may be raging at his orchestra, but a Vallée hour rehearsal never quite loses its sense of being a group of old friends," Alton Cook wrote. He will often have his band play for a quarter-hour over a one-hour passage that does not please him. "His temper is thin on those days."

"Vallée has a violent, vicious, and ungovernable temper, and has been referred to the use of blasphemy and the use of intemperate, vile, and vituperative terms, especially when applied to [her]" during his separation from his second wife, Fay Webb. She accused him of adultery with three people, including actress Alice Faye. Vallée denied the allegations, but the judge found him "not guilty of any misconduct or mistreatment of Webb that adversely affected her physical or medical health."

On the set of George White's Scandals, Vallée and producer George White locked fist fight. "Other actors on the air have their problems, their inconsistencies, and yet you don't know about their ending in black eyes," Dorothy Brooks wrote in 1936. Rudy Vallee is the only one who appears to be interested in such endings. Vallée said in a Brooks interview that he found himself fighting "savage and stupid" and "the wrong way to solve problems because it never solves them." When asked why he became involved in fights, he replied, "I just lost my temper." I'll admit to having a tense mood.

Vallée died of cancer at his home on July 3, 1986, when watching the restored Statue of Liberty's televised centennial ceremonies. Eleanor's husband said, "I wish we could be there; you know how much I love a party."

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Career

Vallée, a musician who played drums in his high school band, also played clarinet and saxophone in bands around New England as a child. He appeared with the Savoy Havana Band in London, where band members discouraged him from trying to be a vocalist from 1924 to 1925. He returned to the United States after a short time at the University of Maine. He obtained a degree in philosophy from Yale University, where he competed for the Yale Collegians with Peter Arno, who became a cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine.

Rudy Vallée and the Connecticut Yankees were formed after graduation, naming himself after saxophonist Rudy Wiedoeft. He began playing with this band, which featured two violins, two saxophones, a banjo, and drums. He had a thin, flabby tenor voice and seemed more at home singing sweet ballads than jazz songs. But young women's singing, suave demeanor, and boyish good looks attracted attention. Vallée was granted a recording contract and began performing on the radio, first with the Yale Collegians Orchestra in New York, and then on WEAF and the NBC Red Network, which followed him starting in 1929.

He was one of the first crooners. In the days before microphones, singers needed big voices to fill theaters. Crooners had soft voices that were suited to radio's intimacy; in this case, the microphones provided direct access to "a vulnerable and sensuous interior," or "a conjured intimacy." "Deep Night" by Vallée's trombone-like vocal phrasing might compel Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and Perry Como to recast their voices on jazz instruments.

Vallée was one of the first celebrity pop stars. He was pursued wherever he went. His live appearances were usually sold out. His voice struggled to project in venues without microphones and amplifiers, so he often performed by a megaphone. In the Betty Boop cartoon Poor Cinderella (1934), a caricature of him singing this way was depicted. In Crosby, Columbo, and Vallee, which parodies him, Bing Crosby and Russ Columbo, another caricature is found.

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When Vallée's fame peaked, he had a slew of detractors as well as supporters. A contest was held by Radio Revue, a radio fan magazine, in which people wrote letters describing his triumph. "Rudy Vallee is reaping the harvest of a seed that is seldom sown this day and age: LOVE," the winning letter, written by a man who detests Vallée's music, said. The naughty little boy-of-a-gun absolutely adores his audience and his art. He LOVES to please listeners more than he does his name in the big lights, or even in the papers' mug. "He loved all those unseen women as a voice can love long before they started to purr and caress him with two-cent stamps."

Vallée's low-priced brands Harmony, Velvet Tone, and Diva were among his first recordings for Columbia's low-priced labels Harmony, Velvet Tone, and Diva. He joined RCA Victor in February 1929 and remained with the company until 1931, escaping after a bitter fight with executives over song picks. He then sang of the short-lived Hit of the Week label, which sold largely bad quality songs laminated onto a cardboard base. He signed with Columbia in August 1932 and stayed with the brand until 1933. Vallée returned to RCA Victor in June 1933; his records were first published on Victor's low-priced Bluebird label until November 1933, when he first appeared on the Victor label. He lived with RCA Victor until signing with ARC in 1936. ARC released his information on the Perfect, Melotone, Conqueror, and Romeo brands until 1937, when he returned to RCA Victor.

Vallée's most well-known albums include "The Stein Song" (a.k.a. "Vieni, Vieni" in 1929 and "Vieni, Vieni" in the late 1930s.

"As Time Goes By" was his last hit song, which was released in the 1942 film Casablanca. RCA Victor reissued the version he had seen in 1931 due to the AFM recording ban in 1942-44. During World War II, he enlisted in the United States Coast Guard to assist in the establishment of the 11th district Coast Guard band as a Chief Petty Officer. He was promoted to Lieutenant and led the 40 piece band to great success. He was put on the inactive list and returned to radio in 1944.

According to George P. Oslin, Vallée, the first singing telegram was broadcast on July 28, 1933. A fan broadcasted birthday greetings, and Oslin's operator performed "Happy Birthday to You."

Vallée began hosting The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour in 1929, a famous radio show with guests like Fay Wray and Richard Cromwell in dramatic skits. Vallee, etieties, and The Rudy Vallee Exhibition were among the many radio programs hosted by Vallée throughout the 1930s and 1940s.

When Vallée took his paid leave from his national radio show in 1937, he demanded that Louis Armstrong be his replacement. This was the first time an African-American radio station was hosting a national radio station. Vallée wrote the introduction to Armstrong's 1936 book Swing That Music.

Vallée made his first feature film, The Vagabond Lover, for RKO Radio in 1929. His first films were made to cash in on his singing fame. Although his early performances were rather basic, his voice had greatly improved in the late 1930s and 1940s, and by the time he began working with Preston Sturges in the 1940s, he had become a successful comedic support player. In Sturges' 1942 screwball comedy The Palm Beach Story, he appeared opposite Claudette Colbert. I Remember Mama, Unfaithfully Yours, and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer are three other films in which he appeared.

Vallée appeared in Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, starring Jane Russell, Alan Young, and Jeanne Crain. The film was shot on location in Paris. The film was based on her Anita Loos' book, which was a sequel to her acclaimed Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. At the time, Gentlemen Marry Brunettes was popular in Europe, and was released in France as A Paris Pour Les Quatre ("Paris for the Four") and in Belgium as Tevieren Te Parijs.

Vallée appeared on Broadway in the 1961 Broadway musical How to Succeed in Company Without Really Trying and Reminiscing the role in the 1967 film version. In the Night Gallery's episode "Marmalade Wine" in the 1960s, he appeared in the Batman television show as the villain Lord Marmaduke Ffogg, and in 1971 as a vindictive surgeon.

Vallée owned Vallee-Video, a television production company that was founded in the early days of national TV broadcasting from 1948 to 1952. On April 3, 1948, the firm was founded. Vallée created These Foolish Things and Under a Campus Moon, which he appeared himself, on television. Ed Wynn, Pinky Lee, Buddy Lester, and Cyril Smith were among the many famous Vallee-Video shows.

Vallee-Video produced one of the first cartoon shows on television, Tele-Comics, in 1949.

Vallee-Video's breakthrough in 1952 would have been a 15-minute television show based on the Dick Tracy comic strip starring Vallée's pal Ralph Byrd, who appeared in four excellent Dick Tracy scripts from 1937 to 1941. Vallée's show was sold as a pilot to NBC. Vallée and Byrd also appeared on a proposed radio show based on the comedy strip Hawkshaw the Detective. Sadly, Byrd died in August 1952, bringing the Dick Tracy production to a halt, and putting an end to Vallee-video.

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