Julia Frances Langford (April 4, 1913 – July 11, 2005)

Frances Langford was a singer and entertainer, popular during the
Golden Age of Radio who also made film appearances over two
decades.

Frances Langford appeared as herself along with The Modernaires
in The Glenn Miller Story, 1954

   
       John Cameron Swayze (April 4, 1906 – August 15, 1995)

Swayze was a popular news commentator and game show panelist during
the 1950s. He first sought work as an actor,but acting roles in Broadway
theater during 1929 became scarce due to the stock market crash.

Swayze returned to the Midwest and began working for the Kansas City
Journal Post as a reporter. He soon graduated to radio in 1940 doing
news updates for the local CBS radio affiliate KMBC. He later moved
to Los Angeles and Hollywood where NBC hired him for its western
news division before moving him to its New York news operation
in 1947. 

In 1949 Swayze was chosen to host NBC’s first television newscast,
the fifteen-minute Camel News Caravan where he.read items from
the news wires and periodically interviewed newsmakers.  

Jane Powell was born Suzanne Lorraine Burce in Portland, Oregon. She
began dance lessons at the age of two and appeared on the KGW radio
talent show Stars of Tomorrow at age five.She had attended Beaumont
Grade School and Grant High School in Portland. Powell signed with
Metro-Goldyn-Mayer while still in her teens. She was loaned out to
United Artists where she made her first film in 1944, a musical
comedy titled Song of the Open Road. Powell continues to act
and perform today.

Barbra Streisand, with Johnny Desmond, in 1964’s Funny Girl

The Broadway production of Funny Girl is a musical with a semi-biographical
plot based on the life and career of film star and comedienne Fanny Brice. It
starred Barbra Strieisand and opened at the Winter Garden Theater and
closed at the Broadway Theater, for a total run of 1,348 performances. The
musical was nominated for eight Tony Awards, but failed to win any. It faced
tough competition from Hello Dolly!.  

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Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks, The Baby Snooks Show 
on CBS radio (1944)

Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer

          
               Al Jolson (May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950)

Al Jolson was a singer, comedian and actor who,during the height of his
career, was dubbed "The World’s Greatest Entertainer” and  was also
the highest paid. Jolson is best remembered as the star in the first
full length talking movie, The Jazz Singer in 1927.