Singer, Actress. She began her show business career at age six, essaying as "Little Lord Fauntleroy" in stock theater. Soon after she landed acting jobs in film as a screen double for Fort Lee Film Studios actress Madge Evans. Launched Broadway career in 1928, she appearing in "Jarnegan", "Provincetown Follies", and "Tell Me Pretty Maiden." By 1938 she was one of the headliners at Billy Rose's famed Diamond Horseshoe Nightclub in the basement of the Paramount Hotel off Times Square, making popular the songs "I'm Only A Bird In A Gilded Cage," "No! No! A Thousand Times No!", "And The Band Played On", " Mention My Name In Sheboygan", and her biggest hit, "Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay" , which she would later recall she sang several thousand times over the length of her career. In the early 1940s she was heard on Mercury Theater (directed by Orson Welles), hosted her own radio shows, "The Gay Nineties Hour" and "The Beatrice Kay Show." Her Columbia record albums are recognized by archivists as collectors items; most of them on 78, but her last recording was an lp for an indie (Electric Lemon Record Company) titled "Singing in the Sunlight," a collection of noted songwriter Al Sherman's songs. She appeared in such prestigious nightclubs as the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France, famous Ciro's in Los Angeles, and San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel Venetian Room. She appeared in a 1945 motion picture about the famed club where she had performed in earlier years, "Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe" (with Betty Grable and Dick Haymes,) and headlined at the popular Hotel El Rancho in Las Vegas in 1951, appeared with Cliff Robertson in "Underworld U.S.A." (1961,) was seen in 1969 in "A Time For Dying" with Victor Jory and Audie Murphy, and in 1974 filmed "Ginger In The Morning" with Susan Oliver, Sissy Spacek, and Monte Markham. Her Television appearances included "Make Room For Daddy" (with Danny Thomas), "M Squad", "The Alaskans", "Bonanza" (with Lorne Green and Michael Landon), "Hawaiian Eye", "The Rifleman" (with Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford), and "Ironside" (with Raymond Burr). She retired to run the Beatrice Kay Holiday Resort Dude Ranch, but following a fire which destroyed her home, she returned to show business. Her later television appearances included roles on "Adam 12" and "Night Gallery". She toured in 1972 with "The Big Show Of 1936" (with Ben Blue, Jackie Coogan, the Ink Spots, Virginia O'Brien, Ray Bolger and the Weire Brothers). She also headlined a month-long booking opening Milt Larsen's Mayfair Music Hall in Santa Monica, California (with Bernard Fox and Larry "Seymour" Vincent). Beatrice Kay was 78 at the time of her death.