Stars of Vaudeville #453: Bonnie Thornton
Elizabeth “Bonnie” Cox (ca. 1871-1920) started out as a singing single at Tony Pastor’s and the Proctor singer before forming a double act with her husband, songwriter James Thornton, in 1893. She not only sang the definitive versions of his tunes, but inspired some of the most famous of them, such as “When You Were [...]