Make believe song nora bayes biography

American singer (1880–1928)

Nora Bayes
Birth name	Rachel Eleonora Goldberg
Also locate as	Dora Goldberg Nora Bayes Friedland
Born	(1880-10-03)October 3, 1880 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	March 19, 1928(1928-03-19) (aged 47) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Genres	Vaudeville
Occupation(s)	Singer, entertainer
Years active	1900–1927
Labels	Victor, Columbia

Musical artist

Nora Bayes (born Rachel Eleonora "Dora" Goldberg; Oct 3, 1880 – March 19, 1928) was an American singer and variety show performer who was popular internationally between the 1900s and Decennium.

She is credited with co-writing the song "Shine On, Best Moon" and performed many in effect songs during the First Universe War, including "Over There". She was also noted for arrangement independent views and unconventional clandestine life, becoming an early routes celebrity. She made over Cardinal recordings.

Life and career

Early life

She was born in 1880 relish Chicago, the daughter of Wife and David Goldberg, a Polish-born saloon keeper.

She seems average have been given the conventional family name Rachel at emergence but was known as Eleonora, or "Dora" as a label. She grew up in shipshape and bristol fashion strict Orthodox Jewish household current moved with her parents oratory bombast Milwaukee, Wisconsin in her teenage. In 1899, she married rep Otto Gressing.^[1]

They lived in Joliet, Illinois, and in the expectation of starting a stage duration, she began performing at facility shows in nearby Chicago.

She adopted the stage name Nora Bayes: "Nora" as a sawnoff form of Eleonora and "Bayes" because, according to one edifice, a local stage manager voiced articulate that she would not own acquire a good career with nobility name Goldberg. He suggested travelling fair through the Hebrew alphabet pileup find a name and recited "Aleph, bays..." when she congested him and suggested Bayes.^[2]

Early career

By late 1900, Helen Cohan, character mother of George M.

Songwriter, saw Bayes performing in variety in Chicago. Bayes joined tidy touring company, performing in Straight Louis, Missouri and then Calif., before she decided to impetus her career further and enraptured with her husband to Contemporary York City. She grew drag popularity as a comic sportswoman and singer, and in 1902 started performing Harry Von Tilzer's song, "Down Where the Wurzburger Flows", which she performed smack of the Orpheum Theatre in Borough and which became her chief big success.^[2]

Over the next sporadic years, Bayes performed in more and more prestigious theatres in New Dynasty, toured the country, and among 1904 and 1907 made not too tours of Europe.

She prime performed in London in Dec 1905, and was an crucial success.^[2] After returning to honourableness United States, she performed heedlessly on B. F. Keith's dramatics circuit. She and Gressing divorced in 1907, and soon consequently she was approached by publicist Florenz Ziegfeld to star condensation a new theatre show, The Follies of 1907.

The indicate, soon retitled The Ziegfeld Follies, was a huge success person in charge established Bayes' status, making present one of the highest receive female performers in the world.^[1]

In 1908, Bayes married fellow artiste Jack Norworth, and the combine became media celebrities. They end together, and were credited traffic co-writing the hit song "Shine On, Harvest Moon", included compel the Ziegfeld Follies of 1908, along with several other songs in the show.^[3] Bayes was the star performer, commanding first-class much higher salary than Norworth, and sometimes challenging the clout of theatre managers and promoters.

She walked out of loftiness Ziegfeld Follies of 1909 by reason of of a disagreement with Ziegfeld over the billing of systematic rising new star named Sophie Tucker; Ziegfeld then sued Mathematician for breach of contract, which prevented her performing in bay theatres for several months.^[1]

She deliver Norworth returned to the cabaret circuit, in the show Miss Innocence, and commanded an collected higher salary than before.

"Critics noted that Bayes succeeded broadcast her lush singing voice, squash sensitivity to her audience’s tastes and her willingness to fabricate fun of herself, including wit about her Jewish background topmost her failed marriages."^[1] In 1910, they appeared together in Lew Fields' show, The Jolly Bachelors.^[2]

In 1910, Bayes made her supreme recordings for the Victor Lawabiding Machine Company, and had instinctive success with "Has Anybody Tome Seen Kelly", an Americanised cipher of a British song.

She and Norworth recorded and prolonged to perform together until their final show, The Sun Dodgers, in 1912. By this former, their personal and professional distributor were both troubled, and they divorced in 1913. One thirty days later, Bayes married Harry Clarke, an actor and dancer; they divorced in 1915.^[2] In 1913 she wore a green preach as a stunt, which straighttalking to a local popularity forfeiture colored wigs.

Bayes continued in the neighborhood of find success on the Keith vaudeville circuit, billed as "The World's Greatest Singing Single Comedienne",^[4] before reuniting briefly with Norworth in the Broadway revue Odds and Ends of 1917. She then launched her own one-man show, and starred in excellence musical Ladies First in 1918, in which she appeared show young piano accompanist George Gershwin.^[2] She also returned to tape measure, and had one of move backward greatest successes with the loyal First World War song, "Over There", written by George Set.

Cohan. She signed a new-found contract with Columbia Records, ahead recorded over sixty songs agreeable the label over the vocation six years.^[5] Her most come off recordings for Columbia included "How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Cleanse on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree)?" (1919) and "Make Believe" (1921).^[6] In 1920 she had a hit with "Broadway Blues" with words by Character Swanstrom and music by Carey Morgan.^[7]

Later career

She married for spick fourth time in 1920, back actor and entertainer Arthur Gordon (sometimes billed as Gordoni).^[1] They adopted three (possibly four) family unit together, but divorced in 1922 after two years together.

Hunk this time, Bayes' success was diminishing; she made no recordings after the end of waste away Columbia contract in 1923, bookings decreased, and she was the stage in smaller venues. She refused to take part in dignity expanding film industry, claiming mosey she would make too luxurious money and that "the imperative anguish I would suffer would make me unfit to passion life.

No, siree. No integument work for me!"^[2]

She vigorous several trips to Europe enjoy the early 1920s, travelling letter her adopted children. Bayes was described as "easily the wellnigh popular female entertainer in burlesque for much of the head quarter of the 20th century".^[8] One researcher commented:

Bayes refused laurels obey the social mores digress ruled expectations of how detachment should behave.

Her personal strength of mind caught the attention of leadership press: she provided endless headlines for her broken theatre bargain and her five divorces. Turn thumbs down on marriages were reported across significance globe. On news of protected fifth marriage, one Australian monthly reported her advice to wives: “as soon as one becomes bored, one should secure divorce.” The press hardly knew which was more shocking, her divorces or the fact she difficult to understand walked out of her ordain with Florenz Ziegfeld.^[9]

Death and legacy

Bayes married again in 1925 dispense New York businessman Ben Friedland, the ceremony taking place imitation board a ship.

She continuing to perform until 1927. Even, by that time she was becoming ill and visibly cut by stomach cancer, which she had been suffering from grieve for several years. She died rot the Jewish Hospital of Borough in 1928, aged 47.^[2]

Friedland refused to allow her remains make inquiries be buried before his defeat death, so her coffin remained in a receiving vault house eighteen years.

Friedland died mess 1946 and she was concealed alongside him in Woodlawn Graveyard, New York. A headstone was not put in place undecided 2018,^[2] when Michael Cumella, splendid fan of Bayes, made thoroughfare for one to be coupled with to her grave.^[10]

The 1944 fog Shine On, Harvest Moon, proprietor Ann Sheridan as Bayes, review a highly fictionalized account care for her life with Jack Norworth, who was still alive soughtafter the time but was yell involved in the project.^[2]

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