Eighty years ago, this day’s issue of Radio Guide magazine, July 18, 1936, featured Niela Goodelle.

Born Helen Goodell, a friend remarked that her name “reeked of the kitchen,” and suggested she change it.  She turned her first name around and spelled it the way it sounded, and added an “e” to her last name.  The magazine described her as a welcome addition to any broadcast who had carried herself to the topmost pinnacles of radio fame.

According to the Internet Movie Database, she died in New York in 1988.

Here, she performs “Ten Pretty Girls.”

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