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A major vaudeville entertainer of the 1920s, matronly Belle Baker (born Bella Backer) had introduced Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" and was highly acclaimed for transforming simple ballads into tearjerking expressions of love and despair. After embarking on a crash diet, Baker signed with Columbia Pictures and made her screen debut as a vaudeville star losing her man to vampish Eunice Queedens (later Eve Arden) in The Song of Love (1929). Hyped as "an event as important as the coming of sound," Baker's screen bow was hardly that, and she hurried back to the legitimate stage.