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b. Anna Myrtle Swoyer, 10 May 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 25 March 1992, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA. Small in stature but with a powerful stage presence and singing voice, Walker made a considerable mark on Broadway stages, and also impressed in the handful of films in which she appeared. Her Broadway debut came in Best Foot Forward (1941), which had songs by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin. That show was produced by George Abbot who cast her in On The Town (1944) where she stopped the show nightly with ‘I Can Cook Too’, prompting songwriters Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green to write an additional song for her. Through the rest of the 40s, Walker appeared in Barefoot Boy With Cheek (1947), Look Ma, I’m Dancin’ (1948) and the revue Along Fifth Avenue (1949). Also in the 40s, she was in Hollywood for the screen version of Best Foot Forward, in which she repeated her stage role as did June Allyson also making her screen debut, Girl Crazy, the scree...