Beatrice Kay

Beatrice Kay was an American singer and stage and film actress who started in vaudeville and music halls. Born in New York City, she began performing at six in stock theater in Louisville, Kentucky, and went on to headline Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe nightclub in New York. She appeared on Broadway in shows including Secrets, Jarnegan, Provincetown Follies and Tell Me Pretty Maiden, sang on radio programs such as Gaslight Gaieties and the Mercury Theatre on the Air, and hosted her own radio show in 1946. She recorded several albums and played top nightclubs in San Francisco, Paris, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Her screen work included Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe in 1945 and, later, Underworld U.S.A. (1961), A Time for Dying (1969) and Ginger in the Morning (1974), and she voiced Sue in the cartoon series Calvin and the Colonel. In 1972 she toured with The Big Show of 1936, and she died in 1986.