She was only 15 or 16 when she did this scene in Broadway Melody of 1938, a year before the Wizard of Oz. "You Made Me Love You" was her first hit song from a movie, followed by "Zing Went the Strings of My Heart," then "Over the Rainbow." "Zing!" had been her first radio hit, way back when she was 13. Her first recorded song was "Stompin' at the Savoy," which was accompanied by Bob Crosby (Bing's brother) and the Bobcats. Those songs were from the thirties."The Trolley Song" and "Merry Little Christmas" came in the 40s, while "Get Happy" and her last big hit, "The Man That Got Away" (see below), came in the fifties.
If you want to know all the details, this excellent site chronicles her quotidian life in painstaking detail.
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