Lillian Roth

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Lillian Roth (December 13, 1910 - May 12, 1980) was an American singer and actress. Born Lillian Rutstein in Boston, Massachusetts, she was merely six-years-old when her mother took her to Educational Pictures, where she became the company's trademark, symbolized by a living statue holding a lamp of knowledge. The following year she made her Broadway debut in The Inner Man. Her motion picture debut came in 1918 in Pershing's Crusaders. Together with her sister Ann she toured as "Lillian Roth and Co." At times the two were billed as "The Roth Kids." One of the most exciting moments for her came when she met U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. Roth entered the Clark School of Concentration in the early 1920s. She appeared in Artists and Models in 1923 and went on to make Revels with Frank Fay. During production for the former show, she told management she was nineteen years of age. When she was seventeen, the youth made the first of three Earl Carroll Vanities with Ray Dooley. This was soon followed by Midnight Frolics, a Flo Ziegfeld production. Soon the young actress signed a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures. Among the films she made for Paramount were The Love Parade (1929) with Maurice Chevalier, Paramount On Parade (1930), Honey (1930), in which she sang "Sing You Sinners," Madam Satan (1930) with Reginald Denny, and the classic comedy Animal Crackers (1930) with the Marx Brothers. Roth occasionally made films for other studios, such as the women's prison film Lad

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After You've Gone

I'll Cry Tomorrow

I Can Get It For You Wholesale

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Swinging Thirties (30s)

Speakeasy Music of the 1920's

Beyond My Worth

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1920s Betty Boop Era

The Very Best Of

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Divas of the 1920's

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100 Songs for Romantic Dinner

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I Can Get It for You Wholesale (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

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100 Charleston Classics

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