Spoiler : Betty Jane Rhodes (April 21, 1921 – December 27, 2011) was an American actress and singer, most active in film during the late 1930s and the World War II er She was widely known to wartime movie audiences for her debut performance of the classic song, "I Don't Want To Walk Without You", in Sweater Girl in 1942 In 2012, Tom Vallance of The Independent wrote of Rhodes performance, "Her place in the history of popular song is secured by her having introduced on screen one of the great songs of wartime longing, "I Don't Want To Walk Without You." Rhodes later had her own weekly show on NBC during the 1950s, which aired on Saturday nights. Her appearances, as well as other early television roles, earned her the nickname, "The First Lady of Television." Rhodes also sang in cabaret until the 1960s. Rhodes was born in Rockford, Illinois, on April 21, 1921. She began her broadcasting career when she was just eight years old. Paramount Pictures signed her to her first film contract as an actress at the age of fifteen.She made her screen debut in the 1936 film, Forgotten Faces, in which she was credited as Jane Rhodes. In Forgotten Faces, which was directed by Ewald André Dupont, Rhodes played an adoptive daughter whose father, portrayed by Herbert Marshall, is arrested for killing a man with whom his wife was having an affair.

Spoiler : Born in Rockford, Illinois 4/24/1921. Married to co-founder of the Mutual Radio Network Willet H. Brown (1945-1993 his death). Singer that began performing at age seven on a local Berkley, California radio station at age eight. She also performed on experimental television over channel W6XAO. Screen debut playing Sally McBride in Forgotten Faces (1936). Last movie was an uncredited role in Halfway to Heaven (1944).

Spoiler : Vocalist on radio programs including Everything For The Boys; The Bob Hope Show; Town Hall Tonight with Fred Allen. She was also the featured vocalist on Mutual Radio programs including This Is The Hour (1943); The Fleet's In (1943). She ended her film and broadcasting career after marriage, but continued to perform in clubs and cabarets, but had been retired for many years when her husband died.