1. Ella Logan began performing under the name Ella Allan as a child.
12 Facts About Ella Logan
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Ella Logan toured Europe before migrating to the US in the 1930s.
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Ella Logan sang at various clubs and to record jazz on the British Columbia label.
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Ella Logan signed a lengthy recording contract with Brunswick Records and its new owner Columbia Records in 1937, for whom she recorded two songs from The Goldwyn Follies and four songs from her 1939 appearance in George White's Scandals.
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Ella Logan appeared in several other Broadway shows including Sons o' Fun in 1941, and Show Time in 1942.
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Ella Logan traveled extensively to Europe and then Africa during World War II to entertain the troops.
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Ella Logan appeared on numerous TV shows in the 1940s and '50s, including The Ed Wynn Show, Cavalcade of Stars, and The Colgate Comedy Hour.
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Ella Logan recorded the show's score for a second time in 1954 for the LP Ella Logan Sings Favorites from Finian's Rainbow, accompanied by pianist George Greeley.
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Ella Logan's career was hampered by the FBI, which reportedly suspected her of having communist ties but never found any evidence to support such allegations.
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Ella Logan continued to work occasionally in clubs, on television, and in theatrical stock productions, into the 1960s.
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Ella Logan's niece was actress and noted jazz singer Annie Ross and her nephew was Jimmy Logan, a Scottish actor.
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Ella Logan died of cancer in Burlingame, California on 1 May 1969, aged 56.