Gertrude Saunders
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Gertrude C. Saunders was an American singer, actress and comedian, active from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Saunders c. 1920s
Noble Sissle
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Noble Lee Sissle was an American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright, best known for the Broadway musical Shuffle Along, and its hit song "I'm Just Wild About Harry". He also s
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…the time of the Paris Peace Conference". In April 1921, she became the star of the first production, in New York, of Shuffle Along, by Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle, who wrote the songs "Daddy, Won’t You Please Come Home" and "I’m Craving for That Kind of Love" for her. She was a part of "the first Broadway musical…
Noble Sissle photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1951
Sheet music cover for "I'm Just Wild About Harry" from the musical Shuffle Along by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, 1921
Noble Lee Sissle circa 1920 (NYPL Digital Collection)