Walter Winchell called her "the incomparable Hildegarde," and Liberace said "Hildegarde was perhaps the most famous supper-club entertainer who ever lived." Hildegarde, who was credited with starting the single-name vogue among entertainers, has died. She was 99. Her career spanned almost seven decades. During the peak of her popularity in the 1930's and 40's she was booked in cabarets and supper clubs at least 45 weeks a year, earning as much as $17,500 a week in 1946. Bobby Short once said, "Hers was the slickest nightclub act of all time."
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