MONICA LEWIS Swing Era singer & actress Benny Goodman etc VINTAGE ORIG PHOTO

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Monica Lewis (1922 – 2015)
was an American jazz singer and film actress. Lewis was the longtime voice of Chiquita Banana in the company's animated ad campaign, beginning in 1947. In 1943, jazz pianist Leonard Feather told Lewis that bandleader Benny Goodman needed a singer since Peggy Lee had left upon marrying his band's guitarist, Dave Barbour. At an audition in Times Square with hundreds of women participating, Lewis earned the part as a singer and began to sing on Hotel Astor's roof with Goodman's orchestra. With the help of Goodman she began to establish her career through nationally broadcast shows such as The Revere Camera Show and Beat the Band. Lewis was dubbed "America’s Singing Sweetheart" during this time.
In 1950, she was signed to a contract with MGM. Some of her films included The Strip, Everything I Have Is Yours, and Affair with a Stranger, and she later appeared in some 1970s disaster films such as Earthquake (1974), Rollercoaster (1977), and both Airport '77 (1977) and The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979). She spoke about her career just 10 days before her death to The New Yorker magazine, in an article published in the September 7, 2015 edition. (Source: Wikipedia)
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