Vintage 8x10 Photo Singer Eileen Barton NBC Radio Star 1946 for Sale

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Vintage 8x10 Photo Singer Eileen Barton NBC Radio Star 1946 For Sale

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Vintage 8x10 Photo Singer Eileen Barton NBC Radio Star 1946:
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I Combine Shipping on Multiple Item Orders !!These Photos are from a large collection of Original NBC / CBS Radio Programs and Personalities.
Eileen Barton (November 24, 1924 – June 27, 2006) was an American singer best known for her 1950 hit song, \"If I Knew You Were Comin\' I\'d\'ve Baked a Cake.\"Barton soon became a child star. By age 6, she appeared on The Horn and Hardart Children\'s Hour, a radio program sponsored by Horn & Hardart\'s Automat, a then-well-known restaurant chain, and, by age 7, in 1936–37,[5] she was working with Milton Berle on his Community Sing radio program, using the name \"Jolly Gillette\" and playing the sponsor\'s \"daughter\" (the sponsor was Gillette Razors).[4] She would ask to sing, he would tell her she couldn\'t, and she would remind him that her daddy was the sponsor, so he\'d let her sing a current hit song. She also was a regular on The Milton Berle Show in 1939.[6]
At 8, she had a daily singing program of her own on radio station WMCA, Arnold\'s Dinner Club. At 10, she appeared twice on Rudy Vallée\'s network radio program in 1936.[7][8] She also acted on radio series such as Death Valley Days.
At age 11, she left show business briefly. At age 14 she went on the Broadway stage as an understudy to Nancy Walker in Best Foot Forward,[4][9] followed by an appearance under her own name with Elaine Stritch in Angel in the Wings.
At age 15, she appeared as a guest singer on a Johnny Mercer variety series, leading to her being noticed by Frank Sinatra, who took her under his wing and put her in a regular spot on the CBS radio show that he hosted in the 1940s. She co-starred on Sinatra\'s show beginning August 16, 1944,[10][11] and was also part of Sinatra\'s act at the Paramount Theater in 15 appearances there.[4] She also appeared on her own and as a guest performer with such stars as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, and Danny Kaye.
In 1945, Barton had her own radio program, Teen Timers.[2] That November, the program\'s name was changed to The Eileen Barton Show. It was broadcast Saturday mornings on NBC.[12]
In 1954, she starred in The Eileen Barton Show,[13] a 13-episode transcribed program for the United States Marine Corps