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Which vaudeville performer was portrayed by Mitzi Gaynor in The I Don’t Care Girl?

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In the 1953 film The I Don’t Care Girl, directed by Lloyd Bacon, the vaudeville performer portrayed by Mitzi Gaynor is Eva Tanguay. Tanguay was a famous singing and dancing comedienne known as "the Girl Who Made Vaudeville Famous," whose signature song was "I Don't Care."12