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Ginny Simms. Virginia Ellen Simms[ 1] (May 25, 1913 [ note 1] – April 4, 1994) was an American popular singer and film actress. Simms sang with big bands and with Dinah Shore, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Jo Stafford, among others.
Actress: Night and Day. War-era songstress Ginny Simms was born Virginia Simms on May 23, 1913, in Texas but was raised in California, which accounts for her lack of a Southern accent in her speaking/singing voice.
- May 25, 1913
- April 4, 1994
Singer, Actress. Born in Texas but raised in California, Ginny Simms became an MGM contract star in the 1940's. As a child she studied piano but it was her vocal talents that catapulted her career when she formed a singing trio while studying at Fresno State Teachers College.
Ginny Simms. Actress: Night and Day. War-era songstress Ginny Simms was born Virginia Simms on May 23, 1913, in Texas but was raised in California, which accounts for her lack of a Southern accent in her speaking/singing voice.
- January 1, 1
- San Antonio, Texas, USA
- January 1, 1
- Palm Springs, California, USA
Apr 6, 1994 · PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - Big-band singer Ginny Simms, who also acted in the musical films "Broadway Rhythm" and "Night and Day," has died of a heart attack. She was 81. Simms died at Desert Hospital...
Apr 5, 1994 · Singer Ginny Sims, a pioneer at Ocean~ Shores, dead at 81 PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - Big , band singer Ginny Simms, one of the founders of Ocean Shores, has died from a heart attack. She was 81. Simms, who also acted in the musical films "Broadway Rhythm" and "Night and Day," died at Desert Hospital on Monday, said her husband, Donald Eastvold, a ...
Apr 6, 1994 · Ginny Simms, a singer who first won fame as a big-band vocalist and went on to a career in films, died on Monday at Desert Hospital here. She was 81. The cause was a heart attack, said her...