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Kenny Baker (1912-1985)
Kenneth Laurence "Kenny" Baker (1912-1985) was a boyishly good looking singer/actor who first gained notice as the featured singer on Jack Benny's radio shows during the 1930s. At the height of his radio fame, and after leaving the Benny show in 1939 (succeeded by Dennis Day ), he appeared in a dozen or so film musicals (At the Circus, The Harvey Girls) and later co-starred with Mary Martin in the original Broadway production of Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash's One Touch of Venus. Retiring from performing in the early 1950s, he became a Christian Science practitioner and motivational speaker.
He died of a heart attack in Solvang, California.
He is no apparent relation to the actor Kenny Baker, of Star Wars fame.
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