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"Put the Blame on Mame" is a song by Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher, originally made for the film Gilda in 1946 - where it was sung by
the title character, played by Rita Hayworth and with the singing voice actually that of Anita Kert Ellis.

In keeping with the film character Gilda being "the ultimate femme fatale", the song sung by her at two scenes facetiously credits the
amorous activities of a woman named "Mame" (the name evidently chosen to rhyme with "blame") as the true cause of three well-known cataclysmic
events in American history: The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Great Blizzard of 1888 in New York City and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Mame is also credited with causing the fictional Shooting of Dan McGrew during the Yukon Gold Rush - an event derived from a short narrative
poem published in 1907 by Robert W. Service.

Already in 1946, the song was also recorded by Nat Gonella & His Georgians.

Put the Blame on Mame also appeared as a mini-short film for "Smooth Criminal" for Michael Jackson's This Is It. Shortly after Gilda sings
the song, Jackson is chased down the stairs and into a hardware store floor, where he jumps out of the window, and was supposedly to land
on the stage and shoot a marqee behind him. The song was later reprised as an instrumental version in 1953's "The Big Heat", when "Gilda"
star Glenn Ford first meets Lee Marvin's character in a bar.

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