The Star Made Me Buy It

Today's star appears in a late 1940s ad, the famed chanteuse known as the Incomparable Hildegarde, for Cannon Hosiery...

Two or three years ago, an auction I attend regularly had a TON of stuff related to Hildegarde (real name Hildegarde Loretta Sell), from either a collector, or maybe the estate of her publicist.  

There's lotsa her appearances on YouTube.