Tamara

b. Tamara Drasin, c.1910, Sorochintzy, Ukraine, d. 22 February 1943, near Lisbon, Portugal. Educated mainly in the USA, Tamara appeared in the revue The New Yorkers (1927, not the Cole Porter show) and was in Crazy Quilt (which starred Fanny Brice) and Free For All (both 1931), Americana (1932), Roberta (1933, introducing Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach's ‘Smoke Gets In Your Eyes'), Right This Way (1938, singing Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal's ‘I Can Dream Can't I?' and Brad Greene and Marianne Brown Waters' ‘Don't Listen To Your Heart'), and Leave It To Me! (1938, in which she san...