Keely Smith, a vocalist best known in the 1950s at Las Vegas nightclubs and on TV as the stone-faced half of a husband-and-wife comic duo in which she impatiently waited out and mocked the rubbery crooning style of mate Louis Prima before delivering a sincere rendition of her own, died on December 16. She was 89.
After the Smith-Prima divorce in 1961, fa…
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