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Events on Friday 31 December 1948 1
1947 – 1948Broadway DebutAppeared on Broadway, billed as Abbe Marshall, in George Abbott's Barefoot Boy with Cheek (1947) and Michael Todd's As the Girls Go (1948). While performing a calypso number in the latter, she was spotted by Xavier Cugat.