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'' (1950). Her radio broadcasts during WWII from 1941-44 were the basis for the musical film Reveille with Beverly. Hay claimed later that while broadcasting she would be asked to read out the names of songs that didn't exist, which served as secret messages to the French Resistance. She also later befriended the famous wartime Japanese-American radio announcer Iva Toguri after she was prosecuted for treason for radio broadcasts from Tokyo. She was married to American swing and

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from 1945 to 1948.

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1917 births 2004 deaths Actresses from Philadelphia American film actresses 20th-century American actresses University of Colorado alumni American television actresses {{US-screen-actor-1910s-stub