Word: hatbox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baby Nora Bayes. Her career happened to Judy even more chancily than her name. Late in 1934 she ended a solo engagement at Lake Tahoe's Cal-Neva Lodge, drove off with her mother but forgot her hatbox. When she went back to get it, a man asked her to sing for him. She was in a hurry, but graciously agreed. The man was Song Writer Lew Brown. With him was Agent Al Rosen. So impressed was Agent Rosen by Judy's singing that for fruitless months he lugged the child around the Hollywood studios while casting directors...