Ella Logan

Ella Logan (March 6 1913 - May 1 1969) was a Scottish-born actress and singer, who appeared on Broadway, recorded and had a nightclub career in the United States and internationally.

She was born Annabelle Armour-Allan in Glasgow, where she was raised and educated. She initially performed under an abbreviatedversion name of her birth name, Ella Allan Fact|date=March 2007.

She began her career as a child becoming a band singer in music halls. At the age of 17 in 1930, she made her debut in the West End of London in "Darling! I Love You". She toured Europe in the early 1930s.

Logan eventually emigrated to the U.S. and began to sing at various clubs and to record jazz on the British Columbia label (part of EMI). She then appeared in several Hollywood films, including "Flying Hostess" (1936), "52nd Street" (1937) and "The Goldwyn Follies" (1938).

She appeared in several Broadway shows in the 1930s and early'40s but travelled to Europe and then Africa during World War II to entertain the troops. She also appeared on "The Ed Wynn Show" and "The Colgate Comedy Hour" in the 1930s and 1940s.

Logan returned to Broadway as Sharon McLonergan in the original production of "Finian's Rainbow", singing the show's most famous song, "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" but did not return to Broadway after that. In 1954, she was cast in a proposed animated film adaptation of "Finian's Rainbow" and re-recorded the score with Frank Sinatra, among others. But the film was canceled, and the recordings were not released until the 2002 box set "Sinatra in Hollywood 1940-1964". She recorded the show's songs for a second time in 1954 for the LP "Finian's Rainbow" released by Capitol Records in 1955, the second of her two solo albums.

In the 1950s, she became an international nightclub performer, appearing at such venues as the Copacabana and the Waldorf-Astoria in New York as well as in London and Paris. She also appeared on television. In May 1956, she appeared in London with Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars. She continued to work occasionally in clubs, on television, and in theatrical stock productions, into the 1960s.

She was married to Fred Finkelhoffe, a playwright and producer, from 1942 until the marriage dissolved in either 1954 or 1956. They had no children. Her niece is the actress/chanteuse Annie Ross and her nephews were the entertainer's Jimmy Loganscots T.V. Star and Allan Kemble Comedy Unicycle entertainer who was an international headline attraction on the continent and world cabaret and stage venues.

Ella Logan died of cancer in Burlingame, California, aged 56.

References

* [http://www.answers.com/topic/ella-logan Biography of Logan]
* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=42958 Profile of Logan]
* [http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/people/famousfirst1477.html Another profile of Logan]

External links

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* [http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?id=94502 Ella Logan] at the IBDB database
* [http://www.autographsofamerica.com/m-movie935-Logan-SP.html Photo of Logan]