Beatrice Kay

Beatrice Kay (April 21, 1907– November 8, 1986) was an American singer, vaudevillian, music hall performer, and stage and film actress.

Background Born in New York City as Hannah Beatrice Kuper, Kay performed as Honey Kuper and Honey Day for part of her career in vaudeville, radio, motion pictures, sound recordings, night clubs, and television. Her career began at the age of six as "Little Lord Fauntleroy" in stock theater in Louisville, Kentucky. She went on to become a headliner at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe Nightclub in New York. She was on The Mercury Theatre on the Air (directed by Orson Welles), and eventually hosted a radio show, The Beatrice Kay Show, in 1946. Also on radio, she sang regularly on Gaslight Gaieties and Gay Nineties Revue.

On Broadway, Kay appeared in Tell Me Pretty Maiden (1937), Provincetown Follies (1935), Jarnegan (1928), and Secrets (1922).

She appeared at top nightclubs, including San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel Venetian Room, the Moulin Rouge in Paris, Hollywood's famed Ciro's in Los Angeles, and at the El Rancho Hotel in Las Vegas. She also recorded several phonograph albums, and appeared in a 1945 motion picture about the club where she had performed in her earlier years—Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe

She appeared with Cliff Robertson in 1961's Underworld U.S.A.

Film and television appearances Over her career, Kay appeared in more than a dozen television shows, including: Diamond Horseshoe (1945) - Claire Williams The Danny Thomas Show (starring Danny Thomas) in the 1959, season 7, episode, "Nightclub Owners" The Alaskans (1959, TV Series) Underworld U.S.A. (1961) - Sandy Bonanza (1961, TV Series) (with Lorne Greene and Michael Landon) - Clementine Hawkins in the episode "The Burma Rarity" Hawaiian Eye (1961, TV Series) - Mrs. Royerton The Real McCoys (1961, TV Series) - Eve Dockweiler The Rifleman (1963, TV Series) (with Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford) - Goldie Drain The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963, TV Series) (Season 2 Episode 1: "A Home Away from Home") - Sarah Sanders A Time for Dying (1969) - Mamie Ironside (1969, TV Series) (with Raymond Burr) - Katie Adam-12 (1971, TV Series) - Manager Night Gallery (1971, TV Series) - Mrs. Gibbons (segment "Cool Air") Ginger in the Morning (1974) - Lady in Park (final film role)