Marion Harris
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Marion Harris was an American popular singer who was most successful in the late 1910s and the 1920s. She was the first widely-known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs.
Harris in 1924
Harris with banjo uke
Robert Williams was an American stage and film actor. He is best known for his first, and only, leading role in the 1931 romantic comedy Platinum Blonde, opposite Loretta Young and Jean Harlow. Willia
Marion Harris
…best what comes naturally, so I just naturally started singing Southern dialect songs and the modern blues songs." She was briefly married to the actor Robert Williams. They married in 1921 and divorced the following year. Harris and Williams had one daughter, Mary Ellen, who later became a singer under the name Marion…
Williams in Platinum Blonde (1931)