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The sweetheart of World War II was on her way to another front-the Caribbean. When Frances Langford gets there the next week or so, she can expect the same kind of admiration she has inspired in homesick doughboys from Alaska to Sicily. No other female entertainer in World War...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: G.I. Nightingale | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

As the Elsie Janis of World War II, blonde (formerly brunette) Frances Langford has not reached all of its multi-fronts yet. The physical demands of global entertainment should have strained the 5-ft. 3½ in., no-lb. Langford frame, but they apparently have not. When the Hope troupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: G.I. Nightingale | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

Pink Sitter. Natural bravado has seen modest, round-faced, contralto-voiced Frances Langford through a routine that would have ruined lesser women. She has ranged heartily from woolen underwear in Alaska to a halter-bra in Africa. During a

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: G.I. Nightingale | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

Florida Peach. Nothing in Frances Langford's 29 years prepared her for her sweetheart role. Daughter of a Lakeland, Fla., building contractor and a concert pianist, she wanted to be an opera singer but not enough − the formalities bored her.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: G.I. Nightingale | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

FRANCES S. VAN DYKE

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1944 | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

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