Stars of Vaudeville #206: Helen Kane
Originally published in 2010. Helen Kane was one of those figures — like Josephine Baker, Eddie Cantor, and Texas Guinan - -who defined the spirit of the 1920s. With her squeaky, baby doll voice, simultaneously child-like and sexually suggestive, the five foot tall, curvaceous Kane popularized the phrase “boop-boop-a-doop” in such songs as “I Want to Be Loved By […]