Friday, July 21, 2000 | 9:34 a.m.
Larry Parks, best known for his acting and his lip-sync to Al Jolson's voice in "The Jolson Story" and "Jolson Sings Again," and his wife, Betty Garrett, were El Rancho Vegas regulars. Garrett was a hit in the Broadway musical "Call Me Mister," in which she sang "South America, Take It Away," later a mega-hit for Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters in the 1940s. She is still active after a successful sitcom career. Joel Grey, billed in 1952 as a "new comedy sensation," became a multiple-award winner for "Cabaret" and a Las Vegas showroom headliner. His real name: Joseph Katz; his father was Mickey Katz, drummer with the Spike Jones Orchestra.
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