Babs Shanton

Babs Shanton
BornJune 17, 1912
Died1947 (aged 34 or 35)
Known forZiegfeld Follies
Spouse(s)Marshall Heminway (m.?-?; divorced)
Townshend Martin (m.1941)
Children3

Georgia "Babs" Shanton (June 17, 1912 – 1947) was a Puerto Rican-American performer with the Ziegfeld Follies and a singer with the Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra.[1] She was a model for The John Robert Powers firm, a "Powers Girl" in the early 1930s appearing in many print advertisements.[2][3]

  1. ^ O, David (2018-09-04). "A Carnival in the Air". A New Yorker State of Mind. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  2. ^ "Cotton Blouse Advertisement". Oakland Tribune. Vol. 120, no. 61. 2 March 1934. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  3. ^ Wissinger, E. (2015). This Year's Model: Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour. NYU Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-4798-6477-5. Retrieved 2019-01-06.