(UPI) International cabaret singer Hildegarde has died in a New York hospital at age 99.
She died Friday at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Hospital, her longtime friend and manager, Don Dellair, told the New York Times.
"Hildegarde was perhaps the most famous supper-club entertainer who ever lived," Liberace once said. "I used to absorb all the things she was doing, all the showmanship she created. It was marvelous to watch her, wearing elegant gowns, surrounded with roses and playing with white gloves on. They used to literally roll out the red carpet for her."
He used a single name like she did and took one of her best-known numbers, "I'll Be Seeing You," as his theme song, the Times said.
It was Walter Winchell who dubbed the Wisconsin native, born Hildegarde Loretta Sell, "Incomparable Hildegarde."
Picked by The Wishman (a double-header day for him!).