Audrey Young

Audrey Young was an American actress and singer who worked in films and with big bands in the 1940s. Born in Los Angeles, where her father built sets for movies, she had sung in Tommy Dorsey's orchestra before she began acting. Under contract at Paramount Pictures, she appeared in about 20 films between 1944 and 1949, beginning with Lady in the Dark (1944), and she sang in several of them, among them Blue Skies. Most of her parts were small and uncredited, though a few, such as Danger Street and The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947), were larger. She also sang in vaudeville and on an early Los Angeles television program, where a Billboard reviewer praised her voice and telegenic manner. Her last film was Love in the Afternoon (1957), as an opera date for Gary Cooper's character. She later served as a costume consultant on The Apartment and Some Like It Hot, both directed by Billy Wilder.