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Ivie Anderson
Sign in to saveAmerican jazz singer (1905-1949)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- I'Ve Got the World on a String
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Film & TV
Gilroy, California, USA
Known for
- Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)1943
- I Got It Bad & That Ain't Good1942
- Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat — The Girl (voice)1941
- A Day at the Races — Specialty Singer1937
- A Bundle of Blues — Self - Singer1933
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Ivie Anderson (sometimes Ivy) (July 10, 1904 - December 28, 1949) was a jazz performer and singer, best known for performing with Duke Ellington's orchestra between 1931 and 1942. Anderson was born in Gilroy, California. With a sweet clear singing voice, she was a popular attraction with Ellington's band. Her performance of "Stormy Weather" in the short film Bundle of Blues (1933) was eclipsed by the later and far better known version sung by Lena Horne in Horne's movie also entitled Stormy Weat
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Anderson
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Gilroy
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- singer
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- voice
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- date of birth
- 1905-07-10
- date of death
- 1949-12-28
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- cause of death
- asthma
- manner of death
- natural causes
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