Name Imogen Carpenter | Died March 24, 1993 | |
Imogen Carpenter (born Mary Imogene Carpenter; February 2, 1912, Hot Springs, Arkansas – died March 24, 1993, Los Angeles, California) was an American actress, musician, composer and music lecturer.
In 1926 at age 14, she moved to Chicago to attend the Chicago Musical College and later the Boguslawski School of Music. She worked first as a concert pianist and later as a singer and pianist in night clubs, theaters, and on radio.
She appeared in the Broadway musicals Ziegfeld Follies of 1941 and Cole Porter's Mexican Hayride. Collaborating with songwriters Lenny Adelson, Kim Gannon, and others, she produced several popular song compositions.
Personal
Carpenter married the successful movie producer Milton Feldman, who was born July 19, 1911, in New York City and died October 8, 1976, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California; they had two children.