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- Category: Radio
- Star rank: 2140
- Address:
6167 Hollywood Blvd - Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing west
- GPS location:
34.101766, -118.323770
Hildegarde
Biography
Hildegarde
Source: lifeinlegacy.com
Hildegarde (February 1, 1906 – July 29, 2005) was an American cabaret singer, best known for the song “Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup.” She was born Hildegarde Loretta Sell in Adell, Wisconsin, and raised in New Holstein, Wisconsin, as a Roman Catholic in a family of German extraction. Sell worked in vaudeville and traveling shows throughout her career, appearing across the United States and Europe. She was known for 70 years as “The Incomparable Hildegarde,” a title bestowed on her by columnist Walter Winchell. She trained at Marquette University’s College of Music in the 1920s. During the peak of her popularity in the 1930s and ’40s, she was booked in cabarets and supper clubs at least 45 weeks a year. She appeared on the cover of Life magazine in 1939, and her recordings sold in the hundreds of thousands. Revlon even introduced a Hildegarde shade of lipstick and nail polish. She was once referred to as a “luscious, hazel-eyed Milwaukee blonde who sings the way Garbo looks”
Fact file
- Birth Name: Hildegarde Loretta Sell
- Born: February 1, 1906
- Died: July 29, 2005 (Aged 99)
Read more about Hildegarde at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database
Hollywood Blvd, north side, between Gower and Vista Del Mar
- Go west and cross Vista Del Mar
- Cross to the south side of Hollywood near Vista Del Mar
- Cross to the south side of Hollywood near Gower
Nearby you will also find Bob Hope, J. Carrol Naish, and many others.