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The "Incomparable" Hildegarde (1906-2005)


Hildegarde performs during her Tuesday night radio show on NBC in 1945.
You can see the Souvenir Record Album of Wisconsin songs recorded by the "Incomparable" Hildegarde online at the Wisconsin Historical Museum's Object of the Week.

Who was Hildegarde? Liberace called her "perhaps the most famous supper-club entertainer who ever lived." As a wildly popular singer, she appeared on the cover of Life Magazine in 1939. By the late 1940s Hildegarde was the highest-paid cabaret singer in the world.

This Adell, Wisconsin, native passed away last month at the age of 99.

:: Posted August 31, 2005
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