• Avis Bunnage
  ...+the+roof&pg=PA235|title=West End Broadway: The Golden Age of the American Musical in London|first=Adrian|last=Wright|date=15 December 2017|publisher=Boydell [[Category:Actresses from Manchester]]
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• Binnie Hale
  ...ish actress, singer and dancer. She was one of the most successful musical theatre stars in London in the 1920s and 1930s, able to sing leading roles in opere ..., Patricia", ''British Film and Television Yearbook'', Vol. 4, British and American Film Press (1952)</ref> The marriage ended in divorce about 1934.
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• Tessie O'Shea
  ...elped win her a [[w:Tony Award|Tony Award]] for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.<ref name=Whitcomb>{{cite book|last=Whitcomb|first=Ian|title=Ukulele Heroes ...United States|American]] [[w:television|television]], helping bring her to American audiences. She was a member of the [[w:repertory|repertory]] company on the
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• Mavis Villiers
  ...f [[Brian Friel]]'s ''[[Philadelphia Here I Come!]]'' at the [[Helen Hayes Theatre]] in 1966;<ref>[http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=2315 Profile], IBDb.c ...0/ ''The Bum's Rush'']</span> (1927), ''[[Saloon Bar]]'' (1940), ''[[South American George]]'' (1941)<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt003
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• April Olrich
  ...-april-olrich/ "Obituary: April Olrich"] ''The Stage'' (9 May 2014).</ref> Theatre critic [[Frank Rich]] (then a Harvard undergraduate) admired Olrich's appea [[Category:English stage actresses]]
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• Jeannie Carson
  ...|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006164642/http://www.musical-theatre.net/html/unsungheroines/jeancarson.html|archive-date=6 October 2007}}</ref> ...ed her given name to "Jeannie" to avoid confusion with the similarly named American actress [[Jean Carson]].<ref name="BFI"/>
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• Aimi MacDonald
  ...e Mating Game 1972">Theatreprint programme for ''The Mating Game'' (Apollo Theatre, London, 1972)</ref> While performing with a troupe in [[Las Vegas, Nevada| ...musical ''[[The Boys from Syracuse]]'' (Jewel Courtesan) in 1963 at the [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]], alongside [[Bob Monkhouse]] and [[Ronnie Corbett]].<re
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• Dilys Laye
  ...aged 14 as a boy in a play called ''The Burning Bush'' at the New Lindsey Theatre and her film debut a year later as a younger version of [[Jean Kent|Jean Ke ...955.jpg|thumb|From the original Broadway production of ''[[The Boy Friend (musical)|The Boy Friend]]''; clockwise from left: Stella Claire, Lyn Connorty, [[Er
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• Millicent Martin
  ...ny Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical|Best Featured Actress in a Musical]]. Other television roles include her recurring role as [[Minor characters === Theatre ===
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• Lizbeth Webb
  ...e Word (musical)|Gay's the Word]]'' and Sarah Brown in ''[[Guys and Dolls (musical)|Guys and Dolls]]''. She married Colonel [[Sir Guy Campbell, 5th Baronet|G ...th Webb|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/theatre-obituaries/9819554/Lizbeth-Webb.html|newspaper=Daily Telegraph|date=22 Janu
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• Amanda Barrie
  ...t the [[Arts Educational School]] in London and later at [[Bristol Old Vic Theatre School]]. ...{cite web|author=Wilf Arasaratnam |url=http://www.whatsonstage.com/england-theatre/reviews/12-2013/cinderella-lowestoft_33072.html |title=Cinderella (Lowestof
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• Hermione Gingold
  ...erself on the stage as an adult, playing in comedy, drama and experimental theatre, and radio broadcasting. She found her milieu in revue, which she played fr From the early 1950s Gingold lived and made her career mostly in the U.S. Her American stage work ranged from ''[[John Murray Anderson's Almanac]]'' (1953) to ''[
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• Glynis Johns
  ...Musical|Tony Award]], and for playing Winifred Banks in [[Walt Disney]]'s musical motion picture ''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]].'' In 2020, with the ...age appearance in Buckie's Bears as a child [[ballerina]] at the [[Garrick Theatre]] in 1935. (She later became a qualified ballet teacher.) She was spotted d
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• Up Pompeii!
  ...of [[Pompeii]]. Since Mills had recently seen Frankie Howerd in the stage musical ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]'' he casually remarked ...e plagiarism, but Rothwell told the BBC that he had seen neither the stage musical nor its film adaptation.<ref name="Cull" />
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• Joyce Grenfell
  ...actress when she was invited to perform a comic monologue in a [[West End theatre|West End]] revue in 1939. Its success led to a career as an entertainer, gi ...Langhorne (1889–1955), one of five daughters of [[Chiswell Langhorne]], an American railway millionaire, and of the architect Paul Phipps (1880–1953), the gr
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• James Booth
  ...My Success (1965 film)|The Secret of My Success]]'' opposite such popular actresses as [[Honor Blackman]] and [[Shirley Jones]], his alcoholism, his unaggressi ...tionist, 25 May 1991, The Salvation Army, p. 12</ref><ref>Who's Who in the Theatre, A Biographical Record of the Contemporary Stage, Vol. 1, ed. Ian Herbert,
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• Patricia Routledge
  * [[Bristol Old Vic Theatre School]] ...er Award for Best Actress in a Musical|Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical]] for ''[[Candide (operetta)|Candide]]''.
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• Anna Neagle
  In 1931, she starred in the West End musical ''Stand Up and Sing'' with actor [[Jack Buchanan]], who encouraged her to t ...al alliance with Wilcox, Neagle played her first starring film role in the musical ''[[Goodnight, Vienna]]'' (1932), again with Jack Buchanan. With this film
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• Jean Kent
  ...e '''Jean Carr''' when she appeared as a [[chorus girl]] in the [[Windmill Theatre]] in London from which she was fired by [[Vivian Van Damm]].<ref name="jean ...'' (1944) with [[Arthur Askey]] and was the ingenue in a [[Tommy Trinder]] musical ''[[Champagne Charlie (1944 film)|Champagne Charlie]]'' (1944).<ref>{{Cite
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• The Benny Hill Show
  ...es Benny Hill in various short comedy sketches and occasional, extravagant musical performances by artists of the time. Hill appears in many different costume ...a [[Quinn Martin]]–like TV "mystery" featuring Hill in the roles of 1970s American television detectives ''[[Ironside (1967 TV series)|Ironside]]'', ''[[McClo
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