Li'l Esther: The Baby Who Birthed Betty Boop?
African American performer Esther Lee Jones, billed variously as Baby Esther or Li'l Esther, started out in her native Chicago as a child performer in the 1920s, singing, dancing, and performing imitations of famous stars like Farina, Florence Mills and Josephine Baker. By the late '20s she had performed at Harlem's Cotton Club, and toured the […]
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