Early Life
Woods' mother worked behind the scenes of films, taking Ilene with her. Ilene started acting at the age of two. At the age of 15 Ilene was engaged, along with Bob Johnstone, by Paul Whiteman to sing on his summer replacement show, "The Philco Hall of Fame" on the NBC Blue Network (later ABC) in the summer of 1944. This quickly led to her own radio show on the The Blue Network on ABC Radio during that same summer, The Ilene Woods Show. The entire show was 15 minutes of music 3 days a week. Many songwriters came on the show to present their music; this is how she became friends with Mack David and Jerry Livingston. She then moved to California.
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