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IC B. (icberry)
Reviewed on 9/18/2019...

"...Once referred to as a 'luscious, hazel-eyed Milwaukee blonde who sings the way Garbo looks', during the peak of her popularity in the 1930s and 1940s, she was booked in cabarets and supper clubs at least 45 weeks a year. Her recordings sold in the hundreds of thousands, and her admirers ranged from soldiers during World War II to King Gustaf VI Adolph of Sweden and the Duke of Windsor.

She was an inspiration for Liberace, who once acknowledged her influence on his performances: 'Hildegarde was perhaps the most famous supper-club entertainer who ever lived. I used to absorb all the things she was doing, all the showmanship she created. It was marvelous to watch her, wearing elegant gowns, surrounded with roses and playing with white gloves on. They used to literally roll out the red carpet for her'.

... 'Miss Piggy stole the gloves idea from me,' she once said."

. It's not easy to impress both Liberace AND Miss Piggy. The wonderful single-named cabaret singer, Hildegarde. Often imitated, never surpassed.

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