Personal Info
Sarah Vaughan
Acting
Biography
She began studying music when she was seven, taking eight years of piano lessons and two years of organ. As a child she sang in the choir at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Newark and played piano and organ in high school productions at Arts High School. She entered an amateur contest at the Apollo Theater in New York's Harlem area, singing "Body and Soul", and won the $10 prize and a week's engagement at the Apollo. From 1944 to 1945, she sang with Billy Eckstine and in 1947 she married her manager, trumpeter George Treadwell. Her later husbands included pro football player Clyde Atkins and tr…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Quincy Jones, Music Man
as Self (archive footage)
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
as Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington & Sarah Vaughan Live At The Berlin Philharmonic Hall 1989
as Self
Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
as Self (archive footage)
The Music According to Tom Jobim
as Self (archive footage)
…Sings Musicals
as Self (archive footage)
Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was
as Self (archive footage)
Jazz Icons: Sarah Vaughan: Live in '58 & '64
as Self
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2
as Self (archive footage)
Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
TV Shows
Jake and the Fatman
1 ep.
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self · 1 ep.
The Pearl Bailey Show
as Self · 1 ep.
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
as Self · 1 ep.
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest · 3 ep.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self · 6 ep.
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self · 1 ep.
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self · 5 ep.
American Bandstand
as Self · 1 ep.
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Singer · 1 ep.