Sylvia Froos was born April 1914 in New York. In 1921, when Sylvia was 7, her mother managed to get her accepted into Kid's Cabaret, a youngsters vaudeville troup. She became a child star known as Baby Sylvia due to her baby voice recordings and radio appearances in the 1920s. Her popularity with the public took her to the top where she performed at the Palace Theater in New York with the Marx Brothers and that furtherd her career to a long tour of vaudeville stages over the entire US.
The Warner Brothers Vitaphone division made 8 to 22 minutes \"soundies\" and in 1927, before the first talking movies, Sylvia made The Little Princess of Song and was tagged with that name for decades. Between 1932 and 1937, she enjoyed parts in 8 movies, the most successful being Stand Up and Cheer in 1934 where she received higher billing than her co-star Shirley Temple. During the 1930s, she also had her own NBC radio show, recorded for Crown and Victor Records and in the latter 30s, toured Europe. Sylvia loved to travel and in the 1940s, appeared as a performer on many a grand ocean liner. She recorded until the 1950s when she retired to her New York home where she passed away at age 89.
Vitaphone 1447. Sylvia Froos, The Suns in My Heart. Pepper Pot #6 aka Ramblin' Round Radio Row #2. Released October 22, 1932. Music composed by Abel Baer~lyrics by Arthur Freed.
If the lady playing Sylvia's mother looks like an older version of Sylvia, it is because she is. That is Sylvia's mother, Eda Froos, in her only film appearance.
