Ilene Woods

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Ilene Woods (born May 5 1929 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S.A.) is an American actress.<p>Her mother worked on the behind the scenes of videos, taking Ilene with her. Ilene started acting at two years old. When she was 14, she was given her own radio show on the new station called The Blue Network on ABC Radio during the summer of 1944. It was shortly known as The Ilene Woods Show. The entire show was about 15 minutes of music 3 days a week. A lot of songwriters came on the show to present their music to her, which is how she became friends with Mack David and Jerry Livingston.<p>She then moved to California, feeling it was time to move on.<p>Her mother was a lot like Ilene. She was very strict, and had Ilene live her youngest years lived only by her mother's way.<p>One day, two of her friends, Mack David and Jerry Livingston, called. They asked her to record a few of their most recent written songs for a movie. They also wanted her not just to record them, but to sing them. Soon the songs...