Born 1915 as Masha Vatz in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, American big-band singer and actress Nan Wynn sang and recorded throughout the 1930s and 1940s with the Emery Deutsch, Rudy Vallee, Eddie Duchin, Richard Himber, Hal Kemp, Hudson-DeLange, Raymond Scott, Teddy Wilson and Freddie Rich orchestras. For about nine months early in her career, she performed as Suzanne.
Wynn is perhaps best known for dubbing Rita Hayworth’s singing voice in several films, including The Strawberry Blonde (1941), My Gal Sal (1942), and You Were Never Lovelier (1942), where she introduced the Kern-Mercer standard I’m Old Fashioned.
In the late 1940s, Wynn appeared on the Morey Amsterdam and Ed Sullivan shows. Her career was cut short abruptly in 1949 by the loss of her voice following the surgical removal of a cancerous tumor, which resulted in a severed facial nerve. Refusing to accept the medical prognosis that a recovery was not possible, Wynn regained her speech and facial control by 1955, at which point she was briefly signed to RCA Victor.
Wynn died of cancer in 1971, in Santa Monica, California, aged 55. Take a look at these beautiful photos to see portrait of Nan Wynn in the 1930s and 1940s.
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