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Betty Bradley

Big Band vocalist and actress active in the late 1930s and 1940s, Born c.1922. She started singing at age 12 and landed her first major vocal job at age 17 with Gray Gordon’s Tic-Toc Orchestra in early 1939. She performed with various orchestras including the orchestras of [a=Bob Chester], [a=Johnny McGee], and [a=Gray Gordon]. She was on Rudy Vallee’s NBC radio program and toured with Vallee’s night club show. In the summer of 1948, she joined Milton Berle’s popular, two-hour night club show, touring the country with him until the end of the year. She continued performing as a solo artist at least through mid-1949.