Belle Baker (born Bella Becker; December 25, 1893[1] in New York City – April 29, 1957, in Los Angeles) was a Jewish American singer and actress.

Popular throughout the 1910s and 1920s, Baker introduced a number of ragtime and torch songs including Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" and "My Yiddishe Mama".

Eddie Cantor called her “Dinah Shore, Patti Page, Peggy Lee, Judy Garland all rolled into one.”[2] Baker was born Bella Becker in 1893 to a Russian Jewish family originally from Akmene, Lithuania on New York's Lower East Side.

Her mother was chronically ill.[3] Born into extreme poverty, Baker was unable to attend school and was forced to work in a factory when she was 6 years old.

[4] Baker started performing at the Lower East Side's Cannon Street Music Hall at age 11, where she was discovered by the Yiddish Theatre manager Jacob Adler.

The song was originally written by a Jewish songwriter only known by the name Schindler for Baker's role as a child in a play.

[9] The song was viewed very positively by gentiles and eventually became so popular around the world that it was banned in Nazi Germany and that Jewish prisoners of concentration camps would often sing it.

She made two more film appearances, in Charing Cross Road (1935) and Atlantic City (1944; in which she performed "Nobody's Sweetheart").

[11] She was a guest performer on The Eveready Hour, broadcasting's first major variety show, which featured Broadway's top headliners.

In 1919, she married Maurice Abrahams,[12] a successful Russian-American songwriter/composer, who wrote such songs as "Ragtime Cowboy Joe", "He'd Have to Get Under — Get Out and Get Under (to Fix Up His Automobile)", "I'm Walking with the Moonbeams (Talking to the Stars)", and "Take Everything But You".

"[13] While in England in 1935, Baker hosted a show to raise money for Jews fleeing Nazi persecution through the United Jewish Appeal.