Born 1921 in Newark, New Jersey, American actress and singer Vivian Blaine was a touring singer with dance bands starting in 1937. At one point in the 1940s, she was the top-billed act at New York’s Copacabana nightclub.
Blaine was best known for originating the role of Miss Adelaide in the musical theater production of Guys and Dolls in 1950, as well as appearing in the subsequent film version, in which she co-starred with Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons and Frank Sinatra.
Her final onscreen appearance was in “Broadway Malady”, a Season 1 episode of Murder, She Wrote. She died of congestive heart failure in 1995, aged 74. Take a look at these gorgeous photos to see the beauty of young Vivian Blaine in the 1940s.
