Belle Baker (25 December 1893 or 1895, New York City, New York – 29 April 1957, Los Angeles, California) was an American singer and actress. Popular throughout the 1910s and 1920s, Baker introduced a number of ragtime and torch songs including Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" and "My Yiddishe Mama". She performed in the Ziegfeld Follies and introduced a number of Irving Berlin's songs. An early adapter to radio, Baker hosted her own radio show during the 1930s. Eddie Cantor called her “Dinah Shore, Patti Page, Peggy Lee, Judy Garland all rolled into one.”
Specialist in ragtime and torch songs, often provided by Irving Berlin.
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Performed with the Ziegfeld Follies and had her own radio show for the Columbia network during the 1930s.
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Began in show business at age 11 belting ragtime songs in a Jewish music hall, located next door to her family's flat on Cannon St., for $3 a week. Discovered there by the Yiddish Theatre manager Jacob Adler.
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Screen, stage, vaudeville, and television actress.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Atlantic City
1944
Belle Baker
Charing Cross Road
1935
Belle
Song of Love
1929
Anna Gibson
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Atlantic City
1944
performer: "NOBODY'S SWEETHEART"
Song of Love
1929
performer: "I'll Still Go On Wanting You", "I'm Walking with the Moonbeams Talking to the Stars", "I'm Somebody's Baby Now", "Atlas Is Itless", "Take Everything but You", "White Way Blues" - uncredited
$10 Million
