found: The girl from Chicago, c1996:credits (Minta Cato)
found: Honig, P.H. 100001, 1992(Cato, Minto, b. 1900, d. Oct. 26, 1979 in New York City; American actress and opera singer)
found: Internet movie database, Mar. 20, 2000(Minto Cato, b. 1900, d. Oct. 26, 1979 in New York, N.Y.)
found: African American National Biography, accessed January 16, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Cato, Minto; La Minto Cato; mezzo-soprano, opera singer; born 23 August 1900 in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States; attended the Washington Conservatory of Music; appeared with the Whitman Sisters traveling show (1927-1929); worked as a solo act at Chicago's Regal Theater (1929); worked with Lew Leslie's Blackbirds (1929-1930); sang in La Traviata with the National Negro Opera Company (1947); received an award by the Manhattan-Bronx Friends of the Symphony of the New World (1972); was active with the National Association of Negro Musicians; died 26 October 1979 in New York, New York, United States)
