She was a touring jazz/pop singer in the late 1940s, singing night after night in nightclubs and bars filled with recently demobilized servicemen: don't harbor any illusions about how that world worked.
She had a great voice, but a great voice alone didn't guarantee you a recording contract either then or now.
She was no shrinking violet.
“She was a touring jazz/pop singer in the late 1940s, singing night after night in nightclubs and bars filled with recently demobilized servicemen: don’t harbor any illusions about how that world worked.”
She had a great voice, but a great voice alone didn’t guarantee you a recording contract either then or now.”
It is very easy to be a cane-waving old man and declare how the world has gone to hell nowadays, but you’re foolish if you think things were better back then. Hollywood has always been decadent and Bob Hope, the Rat Pack, Crosby, all those guys were not paragons of virtue in any way. They smoked, drank, and abused women like there was no tomorrow.
And I’m sure you’ve heard of how the Comic Book Code was created in the 50s because people complained comics were promoting an epidemic of juvenile delinquency.