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A professional entertainer since the age of six, blue-eyed brunette Jane Frazee and her older sister Ruth Frazee had a vaudeville sister act and appeared in nightclubs and on radio together. They journeyed to Hollywood, but the act broke up when Ruth failed her screen tests and Jane passed hers. Jane was quite attractive with a pleasant singing voice, and went on to play in numerous westerns and light musicals after signing with Republic Pictures. She later appeared in a number of films for Universal Pictures, which put her to the test by having her warble amidst the antics of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Buck Privates (1941) and Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson in Hellzapoppin' (1941). She married actor/director Glenn Tryon in 1942 and had a son, Timothy, but the couple divorced in 1947. Moving into TV guest appearances in the early 1950s, Jane later retired and started a successful real estate business. She died in Newport Beach, California at age 67 following complications from a stroke on September 6, 1985.- Actor
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Singer, songwriter ("Oh, My Darlin'"), author and actor, educated at the Detroit Conservatory of Music, and a band vocalist with the orchestras of Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa and Bob Crosby. He performed regularly, even through his final illness, in live venues, and made many records and radio/television and stage appearances throughout his career including roles in the Broadway musicals "Say Darling" and "Funny Girl". Joining ASCAP in 1956, his other popular-song compositions include "How Much Will I Miss You", "Please Don't Forget Me Dear", "I Wonder What Little Dogs Dream Of", "Dancing Man", and "When".- Richiardi Jr. was born on 24 November 1923 in Peru. He died on 6 September 1985 in the Bahamas.
- Gijsbert Tersteeg was born on 11 May 1905 in The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. He was an actor, known for De kleine zielen (1969), Arme Bitos (1962) and Die Jongen van Winslow (1959). He died on 6 September 1985 in The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
- Carmen Hermosillo was born on 3 June 1913 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Caminos de ayer (1938), Mothers of the World (1936) and El hipnotizador (1940). She was married to John Kelly and Albion Marchant. She died on 6 September 1985 in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico.
- Carolynne Snowden was born on 16 January 1900 in Oakland, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Orchids and Ermine (1927), The Devil's Skipper (1928) and The Gilded Butterfly (1926). She died on 6 September 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Mariano Peroni was born on 8 November 1911 in Corinaldo, Italy. He was an actor, known for All'ultimo minuto (1971). He died on 6 September 1985 in Rome, Italy.
- Blues piano player Little Brother Montgomery was born Eurreal Montgomery in 1906 in Kentwood, LA. He learned to play the piano by watching the piano players who performed in his father's "barrelhouse", and picked up the nickname "Little Brother Harper" (later shortened to just "Little Brother", and still later lengthened to "Little Brother Montgomery"). He has claimed that he left home at 11 years of age and traveled all over the South as a piano player, performing in every place from small clubs and house-rent parties to brothels and logging camps, and pretty much everything in between, specializing in blues, jazz and boogie-woogie. He eventually got jobs playing with such blues figures as Clarence Desdunes and The Joyland Revelers. In 1930 he recorded some songs for Paramount Records. He expanded his "territory" to Chicago and New Orleans, but returned home to Louisiana and then moved to Jackson, MS, in the early 1930s. He resumed recording in 1935 after signing a contract with Bluebird Records. He returned to Chicago in 1942 and recorded for several smaller labels that catered to the African-American market. He gained a reputation as a first-rate session man and played on recordings by such artists as Sippie Wallace, Minnie Hicks and Irene Suggs. He kept his performing confined mostly to the Chicago area for the next four decades, although he did do some touring and played blues and jazz festivals around the country. He still did session work in Chicago, playing with such singers as Otis Rush and Magic Sam.
In 1966 he formed his own label, FM Records (the "F" was for his wife, Janet Floberg), but most of the label's releases were of albums by Montgomery and his wife. He recorded his final album in 1982.
He died in Chicago, IL, in 1985.