Actress and pin-up model Betty Grable and her second husband, bandleader Harry James, welcomed a baby girl in early 1944.
The couple met while filming the movie Springtime in the Rockies (1942), in which Grable played a Broadway dancer named Victoria “Vicky” Lane. So they named their daughter Victoria, after the character.
Source: “Daughter Born to Betty Grable.” St. Petersburg Times 4 Mar. 1944: 6.
Image: Adapted from Betty Grable, 20th Century Fox (public domain)
Today is my husband’s niece’s birthday & her name is Victoria! :)