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366: No Such Thing As Listening To Your Marmalade
She tap danced on the pavement busking. That's what gave her the idea to do the amateur night at the Harlem Theatre. Although apparently that was only one of her jobs. She also had a job doing errands for the mob, which…
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Even when she won that first prize in 1934, the prize was meant to be that the winner got to perform at the Apollo Theatre for the next week every day. They didn't let her because she looked so scruffy. She was homeless…
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