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- Daughter of songwriter Richard Armstrong Whiting and Eleanor Youngblood.
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Her family moved to Los Angeles in 1929, when she was five years old. Her father, Richard, was a composer of popular songs, including the classics "Hooray for Hollywood", "Ain't We Got Fun?", and "On the Good Ship Lollipop". [3] Her sister, Barbara Whiting, was an actress ( Junior Miss, Beware, My Lovely) and singer.
Jan 12, 2011 · Margaret Eleanor Whiting was born to Richard Whiting and the former Eleanor Youngblood on July 22, 1924, in Detroit, where her father was moonlighting as a piano player in a hotel.
Daughter of songwriter Richard Armstrong Whiting and Eleanor Youngblood. Margaret was the inspiration for her father's most famous song, Shirley Temple's "On the Goodship Lollipop". She starred in the short-lived tv show "Those Whiting Girls" with her actress sister, Barbara.
- July 22, 1924
- January 10, 2011
Jan 14, 2011 · Margaret Eleanor Whiting was born July 22, 1924, in Detroit and moved as a child to Beverly Hills, Calif. Her father wrote songs for the movies, and her mother was an agent for singers,...
Jan 13, 2011 · Whiting was born July 22, 1924, in Detroit. Her father, Richard “Dick” Whiting, was a songwriter. Her mother, Eleanor Youngblood Whiting, managed singers such as Sophie Tucker.
Jan 13, 2011 · Johnny Mercer, a close friend of her father's, took Whiting under his wing and personally signed her to Capitol Records, where she recorded "Moonlight in Vermont," "It Might As Well Be Spring"...
Jan 13, 2011 · Among them was Mercer, her father's lyricist and close friend, who inspired the young Whiting to take years of vocal training when he told her following an early audition, "Grow up and learn to sing."
