SOPHIE TUCKER - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED 11/09/1962 - HFSID 310677
Price: $180.00
SOPHIE TUCKER
The singer and performer signs with "best wishes".
Autograph note signed: "To/Pete
Warrack/Esq/Best/wishes/Sophie/Tucker/Nov 9 - 1962", in blue ink, 6½x5¼.
After immigrating from Russia as an infant, Sophie Tucker
(1884-1966, born Sonia Kalish in Russia), began singing in her father's
kosher restaurant in Hartford, Connecticut. Moving to New York, she established
herself as a popular star of vaudeville and Broadway, appearing with the
Ziegfeld Follies in 1909. In 1911, she recorded Some of These
Days, which became her signature song and the title of her 1945
autobiography. Other songs made famous by Tucker included Red-Hot
Mama (in 1928, the Palace Theater in New York billed her as "The Last
of the Red-Hot Mamas", a slogan that became synonymous with the bawdy
singer-entertainer). Another song, My Yiddische Mama, became all the
more popular among European Jewry after it was banned by Hitler. Tucker, who
made her film debut in Honky Talk (1929), made numerous film appearances
in the 1950s and 1960s, and her TV appearances include several visits to the
Ed Sullivan Show. Although Tucker tried all modes of entertainment,
she preferred live cabaret audiences. Left edge worn. Fine
condition.
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