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Carol Bruce
Age: 87 (passed away Oct. 9th, 2007)
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Birth Place: Great Neck, Long Island, New York, USA
Born: Nov. 15th, 1919
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BIOGRAPHY: Daughter of Harry and Beatrice Levy - Graduate of Erasmus High School, Brooklyn, NY. Made her Broadway debut in "Louisiana Purchase" which was especially written for her by Irving Berlin.
TRIVIA:
- The Broadway show "Louisiana Purchase" landed her on the cover of Life Magazine (September 9, 1940).
- Won the revered role of Julie in the acclaimed 1946 revival of "Show Boat" opposite 'Kenneth Spencer' (qv) and 'Jan Clayton (I)' (qv) (of "Lassie" fame). She went on to name her daughter Julie.
- Sang at President Franklin D Roosevelt's Birthday Ball, The White House, Washington, D.C., January 1942
- Mother of one daughter, Julie.
- Began her singing career as a Montreal nightclub singer before returning to the states and appearing in "George White's Scandals" in Boston in 1938. The show eventually went to Broadway.
- Made her film debut in the Frank Lloyd seafaring adventure This Woman is Mine (1941). In her second film, Keep 'Em Flying (1941), she sang "I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You." In her third, Behind the Eight Ball (1942), she introduced a Don Raye-Gene DePaul ballad, "You Don't Know What Love Is," which had been dropped from "Keep 'Em Flying" but later became a jazz standard. After these three pictures for Universal, she didn't appear in another film until 1980.
- On July 12, 1951, she was involved in a serious auto accident in Pennsylvania when she collided with a truck. The truck driver died and she was deemed at fault.
- Her last musical stage role was as Madame Armfeldt in a 1994 performance of "A Little Night Music" in San Diego.
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