Frances Langford was born Frances Newbern in Lakeland, Florida on April 4, 1914. As a young lady her talent was more towards the world of opera but a throat operation caused her singing career to take a different direction. She started performing on radio around 1930 and her first break came when bandleader Rudy Valee heard her singing on a Tampa radio station. He offered her a guest spot on his radio show. She then gained real prominence performing I'm In The Mood For Love in the 1935 movie Every Night At Eight starring Alice Fay and George Raft.
	Following this success she joined the Dick Powell radio show Hollywood Hotel and continued on it from 1935 to 1938. Starting in 1935 she appeared in 28 films including:

		Every Night at Eight (1935), Collegiate (1936), Broadway Melody of 1936 (1936), Born To Dance (1936), I'll Reach For A Star (1937), Hollywood Hotel (1937), Romance And Rhythm (1940), Dreaming Out Loud (1940), Too Many Girls (1940), All American Co-Ed (1941), Danger On The River (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Combat America! (1943), Never A Dull Moment (1943), This Is The Army (1943), Cowboy In Manhattan (1943), Career Girl (1944), Girl Rush (1944), Dixie Jamboree (1944), Radio Stars On Parade (1945), The Bamboo Blonde (1946),
	People Are Funny (1946),    Beat The Band (1947),    Melody Time (voice, 1948), Deputy Marshall (1949),    Make Mine Laughs (1949),    Purple Heart Diary (1951), and her final film,    The Glenn Miller Story (1954).

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