cabaret singer, who began performing in the 1920s, achieved stardom in the 1930s, and, as "the Incomparable Hildegarde", became one of the world's best-known and most highly paid popular singers during the 1940s and 1950s. View more information elsewhere at wisconsinhistory.org.

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[Source: Wisconsin State Journal, August 1, 2005; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 31, 2005]