“During her heyday in the 1940s and ’50s, dimple-cheeked Monica Lewis was known as ‘America’s Singing Sweetheart.’ She warbled such chart-topping hits as ‘Autumn Leaves,’ ‘I Wish You Love’ and ‘Put the Blame on Mame’ and starred on the radio on such programs as ‘Beat the Band’ and ‘The Chesterfield Hour: Music That Satisfies.’ She was the singing voice for the animated Chiquita Banana commercials and did other ads…Now 89 [she turned 90 on May 5, 2012], the diminutive Lewis has written (with Dean Lamanna) her autobiography, ‘Hollywood Through My Eyes: The Lives & Loves of a Golden Age Siren’….”
Read more in the LA Times article HERE. And take a look at the original Chiquita Banana commercial in the video below! (E-mail subscribers: click on the title of this post to go to the blog and see the video.)
Happy 88th today: Lauren Bacall’s career began in the 1944 film To Have and Have Not, opposite Humphrey Bogart, and went on to include performing on Broadway decades later in Applause and Woman of the Year. 
“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 9/25/11:
“Age has not tempered the Dutch architect, who at 67 continues to shake up the cultural landscape with his provocative designs.” 
