14 Facts About Kitty Kallen

Only when neighbors subsequently visited to congratulate her did Kitty Kallen's father realize she had actually won it.

In 1951, Kitty Kallen appeared with Buster Crabbe as the Queen and King of Winter at the Lake Placid resort.

Kitty Kallen followed up the song with "In the Chapel in the Moonlight", another million selling record, in the US and a version of "True Love" for Decca.

Kitty Kallen performed at numerous prominent live venues including Manhattan's Copacabana, Morris Levy's Versailles, the Capitol Theater, the Maisonette Room at the St Regis, the Cafe Rouge at the Hotel Pennsylvania and the Plaza Hotel's Persian Room.

Kitty Kallen experienced a mental breakdown during this time in which she found herself unable to sing live, although she could perform in the studio with no problems.

Kitty Kallen sought help from a psychiatrist but ended the sessions after he asked her to undress as part of therapy.

When one of them, Genevieve Agostinello, died in 1978, it was incorrectly reported that Kitty Kallen herself had died.

On February 8,1960, Kitty Kallen received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

When Teagarden fired Garvin, Kitty Kallen left as well, later annulling the marriage.

In 1977, Kitty Kallen sued her dermatologist, Norman Orentreich, after he prescribed an estrogen drug, Premarin, for her small facial wrinkles.

Kitty Kallen subsequently suffered blood clots in her lungs, caused directly by the drug, and was awarded $300,000 by a court.

In 2009, Kitty Kallen was inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.

Kitty Kallen had homes in Englewood, New Jersey, and Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Kitty Kallen was in a relationship with Sonny Shiell in her later years.