Nora Bayes

Nora Bayes was one of those rare female triple-threats in vaudeville entertainment: a singer, comedienne, and songwriter of tremendous ability, she was easily the most popular female entertainer in vaudeville for much of the first quarter of the 20th century. Born Leonora Goldberg in 1880, she began her career in entertainment in Chicago during 1899, when she was 19 years old. Bayes was married five times, but it was her second husband, Jack Northworth, who had been her stage partner and who she married in 1908, who was the most important of them musically -- together they com...