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Cass Daley (born Catherine Dailey; July 17, 1915 – March 22, 1975) was an American actress, comedian and singer. Career. The daughter of an Irish streetcar conductor, Daley began singing as a child in front of neighborhood storefronts.
Cass Daley. Actress: Star Spangled Rhythm. Brassy, gangly Cass Daley, the daughter of a streetcar conductor, started her career as a band vocalist. She displayed a flair for zany comedy that made her a big hit in nightclubs and on radio, and she started working in films in the early 1940s.
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- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Hollywood, California, USA
Cass Daley was a comedienne and singer who starred in films like Crazy House and radio shows like The Fitch Bandwagon. She died in 1975 after a freak accident involving a glass table and a shard of broken glass.
- July 17, 1915
- March 22, 1975
Cass Daley performs this rousing medley from the 1945 movie "Duffy's Tavern". Songs included in this medley: It Could Happen to You/ My Ideal/ Going My Way/ Together/ Murder, He Says/ That Old...
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Dec 2, 2012 · Cass Daley performs a medley of songs in her screen debut, "The Fleet's In", from 1942. Starring Dorothy Lamour, William Holden, Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton in her first movie role. ...more...
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Mar 24, 1975 · HOLLYWOOD, March 23 (UPI)—Cass Daley, slim, bucktoothed comedienne of the nineteen‐forties who was trying for a show business comeback, died in her apartment late yesterday after a freak...
Still calling attention to her brass-trumpet voice, her buck teeth and her knobby arms & legs, Cass Daley last week became radio's most popular comedienne.* The Fitch Co. is busy revising...
