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Stage Name |
Birth Name |
| Blanche
Calloway |
Blanche
D. Calloway |
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Blanche Dorothea Calloway was Born in Baltimore,
moved to Rochester, NY when she was four, and then back to Baltimore
when she was six. Blanche was sister to her younger brother Cab
Calloway. Florence
Mills and Gertrude Saunders were the inspiration for Blanche
to go into show business. Her first big "break" came
in 1923, when she joined the touring companies of the Noble Sissle,
Eubie Blake musical "Shuffle Along."
Later Bill
Bailey and Blanche Calloway, separately and together were
Dance Partners at many nightclubs in New York and Chicago before
her singing career took off.
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