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Warren was born July 11, 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Annette Warren
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And Lucille Ball in both Fancy Pants and Sorrowful Jones
She was discovered in 1945 by vocal coach and arranger Philosophy Moore, who arranged her first recordings. She made her radio debut October 4, 1946, on Meredith Willson"s Sparkle Time program on Columbia Broadcasting System. She co-starred as Mistress Peachum in the off-Broadway revival of The Threepenny Opera with Jerry Orbach, Editor Asner and Beatrice Arthur and was also seen in the musical Livin" The Life with Alice Ghostley and Edward Villella.
Warren"s television appearances include The Tonight Show, The Editor Sullivan Show, The Liberace Show, and The Summer Chevy Show.
She also was seen on screen in the films Midnight Frolics and The Devil"s Sleep. Her first dubbing assignment was for the film Lured in 1947, followed by The Paleface in 1948, in which she sang for Iris Adrian.
She dubbed the singing voice for Lucille Ball in Sorrowful Jones in 1949 and Fancy Pants in 1950. She also provided all of the female voices for John Hubley"s Universal Postal Union short Rooty Toot Toot, which was voted Number.
She co-starred over a 20-year period with fellow "ghost singers" India Adams, Betty Wand and Jo Ann Greer in the musical revue Hollywood"s Secret Singing Stars and was still actively performing as of June, 2015.
A two-Civil Defense retrospective of her recordings entitled "There"s a Manitoba in My Life" was released in 2016 by Fresh Sound Records. In January 2016, Warren sang at the Louisiana Cicada Club in Los Angeles at a party held to celebrate to release of Lyn Stanley"s album Interlude. Warren had been instrumental in encouraging Stanley to embark on her jazz-singing career in 2012.
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