Video of the Week #43

Hadda Brooks had a dual career as a ballad singer and a boogie woogie piano player. Her  biggest hit was "That's My Desire" in 1947, but she didn't make much money because she didn't write the song and it was covered for the pop charts by Frankie Laine.

Here she is singing "'Til You" in the 1950 film noir In a Lonely Place, directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame. She gets more face time than most night club singers did in films of that era.

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