claim: Ragtime is the first film role of Samuel L. Jackson.
evidence: Marjorie Hughes -LRB- born Marjorie Carle , December 15 , 1925 in Springfield , MA -RRB- was a singer in the Frankie Carle Orchestra .. Frankie Carle. Frankie Carle. Orchestra. Orchestra. She was also Frankie Carle 's daughter .. Frankie Carle. Frankie Carle. After singers Betty Bonney -LRB- aka Judy Johnson -RRB- and Phyllis Lynne had come and gone , Carle was auditioning new female singers - some in person , and some by means of demo records .. Betty Bonney. Betty Bonney. Phyllis Lynne. Phyllis Lynne. Carle 's wife sneaked in a demo of Carle 's daughter recorded from a radio program .. She was singing with the Paul Martin band in her first singing job .. Paul Martin band. Paul Martin band. Carle liked the singer he heard on the demo , at first unaware that it was his daughter .. When he decided to give his daughter a chance with his band , Carle changed his daughter 's name to Marjorie Hughes , so that the public would n't know she was his daughter until he could be certain she 'd make the grade .. The band made a hit recording with Marjorie Hughes on the vocal , entitled `` Oh , What It Seemed To Be . ''. With the success of that song , Walter Winchell announced that Marjorie Hughes was actually Frankie Carle 's daughter .. Frankie Carle. Frankie Carle. Walter Winchell. Walter Winchell. According to Christopher Popa 's Big Band Library.com website , Marjorie Hughes real name was Ede Carle .. However , in George T. Simon 's The Big Bands , Simon quotes Frankie Carle saying that he plays golf once or twice a week with his wife , Ede .. Frankie Carle. Frankie Carle. Hughes stopped singing with the Carle orchestra in 1948 `` because of illness . ''. By 1950 , she was `` concentrating on television and radio on the west coast . ''