MEAN TO ME 1929 Babe Blake & Jack Benny

Description: Introduced by young Jack Benny! Here is San Francisco's "Babe" Blake (aka Babe Glick) singing the Annette Hanshaw hit, "Mean to Me" with the composer Fred Alhert at the piano! Did she make records and sing on the radio? If so I don't know. Apparently she had a vaudeville act with a partner. named Gordon. My guess is she was seen by Jack Benny who was MC of all the vaudeville acts at the Orpheum theater in LA, and was promoted to MGM as a fresh new talent for their new talkies. She appears here on the stunning Art Deco set used in the big musical feature, "Hollywood Revue of 1929" Maybe Babe was a flash in the pan. If she sounds like an imitator of Helen Kane, thats because she was! She's got the total baby vamp voice, but kindly left the boop a doops to Helen! Enjoy again! Benny was a popular MC discovered by MGM scouts who saw him at the Los Angeles Orpheum Theater. He was signed to a one year contract to MC all the proposed musical pictures like the Hollywood Revue. ( his first). Did you know that the 30s anthem "Happy Days Are Here Again" came from a Jack Benny movie? It sure did, written for his next picture, "Chasing Rainbows".