July 8, 1945 from the Army Air force convalescence Hospital in Santa Ana California the makers of Chase and Sanborn coffee bring you the Chase and Sanborn program starring Frances Langford with Spike Jones and the City Slickers, Tony Romano and special guest Vera Vague. The announcer is Ken Carpenter. Barbara Jo Allen (born Marian Barbara Henshall; September 2, 1906 – September 14, 1974) was an American actress. She was also known as Vera Vague, the spinster character she created and portrayed on radio and in films during the 1940s and 1950s. She based the character on a woman she had seen delivering a PTA literature lecture in a confused manner. As Vague, she popularized the catch phrase "You dear boy!"