Background
Tester was born on August 17, 1903.
Tester was born on August 17, 1903.
Carothers worked as a sales executive, and predeceased Testor in 1990. Tester sang "Sing Something Simple" in the "The Garrick Gaieties" of 1930 at the Guild Theatre in New York City and performed with Rosalind Russell and Imogene Coca. She also sang and danced in the short subject film, "Makers of Melody (1929)", with Allan Gould singing the Rodgers and Hart song "Manhattan", often called, "I"ll Take Manhattan".
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart appeared in this short as themselves.
Manhattan was Rodgers and Hart"s first hit and started them as a team Tester died at the age of 89 in a nursing home in Weston, Massachusetts on March 21, 1993.