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After abusing alcohol and drugs for the better half of her life, iconic jazz singer Billie Holiday was swindled out of her earnings and died with all of 70 cents (US$6 in 2016 dollars) in the bank.

Miss Piggy was based on the jazz singer Peggy Lee and was originally name Miss Piggy Lee. When Lee threatened to sue, Jim Henson changed the name to Miss Piggy.

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1. Perd Hapley from Parks and Recreation is played by Jay Jackson who was a real television reporter for 22 years, has played a fictional news reporter over 20 times and is a jazz singer!

2. Fallout 4's jazz singer character, Magnolia, performs songs written and voiced by the same woman who played Wonder Woman in the 1970s, Lynda Carter.

3. The first words spoken in a movie was "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet" in 1927 in the movie "The Jazz Singer"

4. The first "talkie", in Hollywood, which means a film made with sound, was produced in 1927. It was titled The Jazz Singer.

5. The first words spoken by a movie actor on a widely distributed film was in 1927's The Jazz Singer: "Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain't heard nothin' yet!"

6. Sam Warner was the strongest advocate of sound films of the four Warner Brothers, but died a day before first 'talkie,' The Jazz Singer, was premiered in New York, causing the other three brothers to be unable to attend the premiere as they had to hurry back to California for his funeral.

7. Joe Pesci is a jazz singer under the pseudonym Joe Doggs

8. Josephine Baker, the glamorous Jazz-age singer and dancer, was recruited by the Deuxième Bureau,the French intelligence service, initially to report on what she heard and observed with her unique access, and later to communicate internationally via invisible ink on the back of her sheet music.

9. Betty Boop, one of the most famous sex symbols in animation, was inspired by a Black jazz singer in Harlem in the 1920s

10. Ian McKellen officiated Patrick Stewart's wedding to jazz singer Sunny Ozell

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Jazz singer Melody Gardot's music career began as a result of her using music therapy in order to recover from serious injuries that had left her confined to a bed for over a year.

The whole concept of dialog in movies came from an ab lib. In the 1927 movie, "The Jazz Singer", Warner Brothers intended people to sing, not to talk. "Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet" was not in the script, because scripts with dialog did not exist. - source

The Jazz Singer" (1927) was the first movie during the silent film era to feature spoken words - source

Seth MacFarlane is a trained jazz singer

The first spoken line of dialogue came the movie “The Jazz Singer”, the line was, “Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothing yet!” - source

The Jazz Singer Slim Gaillard. He was an Afro-Cuban-German-Jewish singer who spoke English, Spanish, and some amount of Greek, Arabic, Yiddish, Armenian and his own invented language "Vout-o-Reenee". He was stranded in Greece as a boy,piloted a B-26 & drove a hearse filled with whiskey

Renowned actor Joe Pesci has a lesser-known career as a jazz singer, singing under the name "Joe Doggs"

The controversial Chinese dress that blew up on Twitter takes its silhouette from flapper fashion, and was first worn by actresses and singers in Jazz cabarets

Richard Pryor started his career as a jazz singer

The real Betty boop was a Harlem jazz singer

Indie rock/"jizz jazz" singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco was born Vernor Winfield McBriare Smith IV. His mother later changed his name to McBriare Samuel Lanyon DeMarco.