Betty Jane Rhodes (April 21, 1921 – December 27, 2011) was an American actress and singer, most active in film during the late 1930s and the World War II era.
[1][2] Before Rhodes appeared on screen, she worked in films as a ghost singer at RKO Pictures, earning $200 per week for supplying the voice for actresses who moved their lips, pretending to sing.
[1] In Forgotten Faces, Rhodes played an adopted daughter whose father, portrayed by Herbert Marshall, is arrested for killing a man with whom his wife was having an affair.
[1] By September 1936, Rhodes had signed a contract with Universal Pictures, which planned to have her in the lead female role in an upcoming Jungle Jim serial film.
[7] Rhodes was widely known to wartime movie audiences for her debut performance of the classic song, "I Don't Want To Walk Without You", in Sweater Girl in 1942.
[1] Rhodes was the regular singer on the radio show Meet Me at Parky's, the series starring Harry Einstein as his character Parkyakarkas.
Charles Dant's orchestra accompanied Rhodes on the recording, which Cashbox said, "has that trick of making you want to sit down and play the thing time and again.