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Hildegarde, A. Fletcher

Hildegarde (1906-2005) was an American cabaret singer, well known for the song "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup". She was an inspiration for Liberace. Hildegarde never married although she was quoted as saying "I traveled all my life, met a lot of men, had a lot of romances, but it never worked out. It was always 'hello and goodbye'". She was the business partner and good friend of Anna Sosenko, an aspiring songwriter whom she met at a boarding house in Camden, New Jersey at the beginning of her career. That relationship ended in litigation over the control of receipts from their joint efforts.