At the height of her career, the glamorous pianist-singer, Hildegarde, a pioneer of one-name billing, was so popular that the likes of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt dubbed her "First Lady of the Supper Clubs." For most of her career she was known as The Incomparable Hildegarde, a title given to her by influential newspaper columnist Walter Winchell. Revlon even introduced a Hildegarde shade of lipstick and nail polish…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 02:06PM on November 5, 2020