Nora Bayes (born Rachel Eleanora Goldberg, October , â€" March , )
was an American singer, comedian, actress and vaudeville star of the
early th century.Born to Elias David and Rachel (née Miller)
Goldberg, in an orthodox Jewish family in Joliet, Illinois. She had a
brother, Hugo, and a sister, Lillie (Mrs. Cerf Meyer). Bayes was
performing professionally in vaudeville in Chicago by age . She toured
from San Francisco, California to New York City and became a star both
on the vaudeville circuit and the Broadway stage.In , she married
singer-songwriter Jack Norworth. The two toured together and were
credited for collaborating on a number of compositions, including the
immensely popular "Shine On, Harvest Moon", which the pair debuted in
Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies of . Bayes and Norworth divorced in .
was an American singer, comedian, actress and vaudeville star of the
early th century.Born to Elias David and Rachel (née Miller)
Goldberg, in an orthodox Jewish family in Joliet, Illinois. She had a
brother, Hugo, and a sister, Lillie (Mrs. Cerf Meyer). Bayes was
performing professionally in vaudeville in Chicago by age . She toured
from San Francisco, California to New York City and became a star both
on the vaudeville circuit and the Broadway stage.In , she married
singer-songwriter Jack Norworth. The two toured together and were
credited for collaborating on a number of compositions, including the
immensely popular "Shine On, Harvest Moon", which the pair debuted in
Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies of . Bayes and Norworth divorced in .
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