Babe Egan (and Her Hollywood Redheads)
Today is the birthday of Mary Florence Cecila “Babe” Egan (1897-1966). A California native, she moved to Hollywood in 1919, playing her violin on silent film sets as a professional mood-setter, as was common at the time. In 1924 she established Babe Egan and her Hollywood Redheads, one of the first of the all-girl jazz [...]