Sophie Tucker, 1930 (rare footage) video

creation of a new song at Hollywood Gardens, NY Sophie Tucker (January 13, 1884--February 9, 1966) was a singer and comedian, one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first third of the 20th century. She was born Sophia Kalish to a Jewish family in Czarist Russia. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was an infant, and settled in Hartford,

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