Peter Lind Hayes

Peter Lind Hayes born Joseph Conrad Lind June 25 1915 April 21 1998 was an American vaudeville entertainer songwriter and film and television actor Hayes made his vaudeville debut with his mother at the age of six In 1939 his mother sold some jewelry and borrowed 8000 to open the Grace Hayes Lodge in Los Angeles where he began working as a nightclub performer He appeared in films throughout the 1930s and 1940s and had a significant television career in the 1950s He often appeared with his wife Mary Healy In 1946 Hayes opened at the Copacabana in New York This led to an engagement with the Dinah Shore radio show Dinah Shore later sang the song for Chevrolet starting in 1952 The couple starred in Zis Boom Bah 1941 and had major supporting roles in the cult fantasy musical film The 5000 Fingers of Dr T 1953 He also had a considerable reputation as a singer of comic songs several of which made their way onto record including Life Gets TeeJus Dont It From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia