Spoiler : Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 5/25/1922. Child actor that was discovered in 1932 acting on The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour on WABC-New York. At age fourteen she began singing with bands of Jan Savitt; Bob Golden; Clem Williams; Jack Teagarden; Jimmy Dorsey; Harry James. She appeared on radio with those bands during the middle 1930s through the 1940s.

Spoiler : Programs that Kallen appeared on as a vocalist include Holiday For Music; The Danny Kaye SHow; Saturday Senior Swing; Sunday Down South; The Alec Templeton Show.

Spoiler : She suffered from voice failure in the 1940s, but returned in the 1950s to become a popular recording artist, and guest starring on television.

Spoiler : Sadly, there aren’t terribly many performers still with us who enjoyed success during the Cladrite Era—all the more reason, then, to celebrate songbird Kitty Kallen‘s 93rd birthday. Kallen, born Katherine Kalinsky in 1922 in Philadelphia, sang on the radio as a child on a program called The Children’s Hour, which was sponsored by Horn and Hardart, the Automat people, and as a teenager, she had occasions to sing with the big bands of Jan Savitt (in 1936), Artie Shaw (in 1938), and Jack Teagarden (in 1940). At 21, she replaced Helen O’Connell as the singer for the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, primarily performing duets with Bob Eberly. After Eberly entered military service in 1943, Kallen joined the Harry James Orchestra, with whom she sang on several hit songs, including two—“I’m Beginning To See the Light” and “It’s Been a Long, Long Time”—that reached #1 on the charts. But Kallen’s career didn’t end when the big band era did. Her 1954 hit, “Little Things Mean a Lot,” was number one in the U.S. for nine weeks and remained on chart for nearly seven months, selling more than two million copies in the process. She had many more hits throughout the 1950s and early ’60s She also appeared frequently on television, on Broadway in "Finian’s Rainbow," in many of the world’s top nightclubs and in at least one motion picture. On her final album, "Quiet Nights," she sang in the bossa nova style. A lung ailment would eventually force her retirement, but Ms. Kallen is still with us and we sincerely hope she enjoys a wonderful birthday today.