Trivia

Also notable for singing "The Bad In Every Man" in Manhattan Melodrama (1934), made up, none too convincingly, as a woman of mixed racial ancestry in a scene set in Harlem's Cotton Club. When this song - now on its second set of lyrics after having been written, though never recorded, as "Prayer," for Hollywood Party (1934) - once again failed to become a hit, it was re-written one last time. Obviously, the third time was the charm; "Blue Moon" would become one of Rodgers and Hart's most durable standards.

Shirley Ross is perhaps best known for singing "Thanks for the Memory" with Bob Hope in "The Big Broadcast of 1938". The song was a huge hit and they later starred in the film "Thanks for the Memory" in 1938. "Thanks for the Memory" became Hope's theme song.