Perhaps it's just coincidence, but in the short story Find Me a Dream in Kurt Vonnegut's short story anthology Bagombo Snuff Box, one of the main characters is the widow of a famous trumpet player. The implication was that he's a real figure, but is never named.
While browsing Betty Grable's entry on Wikipedia, I noticed that she was married to a trumpeter, and that the scant other details fit, that they had two daughters and that alcohol and infidelity plagued their marriage. Of course Harry James lived, yet it's interesting to think that perhaps Vonnegut intended the widow character to be Betty Grable.
One of those weird things that results from reading Wikipedia late at night.
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