Dick Haymes

Birthday: September 13, 2016

Dick Haymes was a big band crooner and actor. His mother was a singer and he was educated in France, Switzerland, and England; in 1936 he came to the U.S., beginning his show business career as a radio announcer. Soon he was working as a band vocalist, and eventually performed with the big bands of Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, and Benny Goodman. By the early '40s he was one of ...more