Ruth Etting in a publicity still for the Broadway show, Whoopee!
This image was shot by famed Ziegfeld photographer, Alfred Cheney Johnston.
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Rising to fame in the twenties and early thirties, Ruth Etting was renowned for her great beauty, her gorgeous voice and her tragic life. She starred on Broadway, made movies in Hollywood, married a mobster, had numerous hit-records, fell in love and was known as America's Sweetheart of Song.
