Kenny Baker

A nightclub singer in the early 1930s, Baker was a regular on Jack Benny's radio show and appeared in numerous musicals in the '30s and '40s, including George Marshall's The Goldwyn Follies, the Gil...
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08/23/1934
Birmingham, England
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