• Betty Warren
  ...1990), known professionally as '''Betty Warren''', was a [[British people|British]] actress active from the 1930s to the 1950s, best known for her comedy rol ...e 'musical extravaganza' ''Magic Carpet'' at the [[Princes Theatre|Princes Theatre]] in London.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.palaceofvariety.co.uk/page4.htm
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• Joyce Grant
  ...akespeare Company|Royal Shakespeare Company]]'s ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1987 musical)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' and Mother Superior in Black Adder S1E3-The Archbisho [[Category:British film actresses]]
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• Dilys Watling
  ...) was an English actress, best known for appearing on [[British television|British television]] (''[[Coronation Street|Coronation Street]]'', ''[[The Benny Hi ...alculated Risk]]'', (also 1963); and the horror film, ''[[Theatre of Death|Theatre of Death]]'', (1967).
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• Amelia Bayntun
  ...g]]'' at the [[Theatre Royal Stratford East]], and in its later [[West End theatre|West End]] transfer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/play/ehe/s ...g=PA239|title=A Tanner's Worth of Tune: Rediscovering the Post-war British Musical|first=Adrian|last=Wright|date=2 January 2019|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isb
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• Avis Bunnage
  ...ecf9a|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-08-04|title=Avis Bunnage|publisher=British Film Institute}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/x ...+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
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• Patricia Burke
  ...}}</ref> She was the daughter of actress [[w:Marie Burke|Marie Burke]] and British operatic tenor [[w:Thomas Burke, tenor|Thomas Burke]].<ref>John D. Vose ''T ...a production of [[Aristophanes]]' ''[[Lysistrata]]'' at the [[Royal Court Theatre]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/nov/25/guardian
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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 ...(ed.) "Raine, Patricia", ''British Film and Television Yearbook'', Vol. 4, British and American Film Press (1952)</ref> The marriage ended in divorce about 19
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• Olga Lowe
  {{Short description|British actress (1919–2013)}} '''Olga Lowe''' (14 September 1919 – 2 September 2013) was a British [[film]], stage and television actress.<ref name=stage/> She made her film
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• Hy Hazell
  ...es give 1919 as her year of birth, although the [[w:British Film Institute|British Film Institute]] cites 1920 and ''[[w:The Oxford Reference|The Oxford Refer ...cite web|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Hy-Hazell|title=Hy Hazell Theatre Credits|accessdate=18 October 2016|publisher=broadwayworld.com}}</ref> [[w:
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• April Olrich
  | nationality = British ...n in [[Zanzibar]] in 1931 (some sources give 1933), where her father was a British diplomat. She also lived in the [[Seychelles]] and [[Uruguay]] while she wa
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• Tessie O'Shea
  ...d his wife Nellie Theresa Carr.<ref name=onshow/> O'Shea was reared in the British [[w:music hall|music hall]] tradition and performed on stage as early as ag ...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
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• Doris Hare
  | nationality = British ...comedian, singer, and dancer best known for portraying Mabel Butler in the British sitcom ''[[On the Buses]]'' and its film spin-offs, after replacing origina
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• Jeannie Carson
  | nationality = British ...|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006164642/http://www.musical-theatre.net/html/unsungheroines/jeancarson.html|archive-date=6 October 2007}}</ref>
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• Betty Marsden
  {{Short description|British actor and comedian (1919–1998)}} ...ended the [[w:Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts|Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts]] and during World War II she entertained the troops as a member of [[
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• Ruth Madoc
  {{Use British English|date=December 2022}} ...]]'' (1980–1988), for which she received a BAFTA TV award nomination for [[British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance|Best Light Ente
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• June Laverick
  She followed an acting career in theatre, film and television and after retiring from acting in her 30s June moved b In the 1950s June worked in the theatre in musicals, comedies and revues, and had a variety of film roles contracte
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• Mavis Villiers
  ...d-967f1859daf6 |website=www.ancestry.com.au}}</ref> was an Australian-born British actress of stage, film and television. Her parents were John Cooney and Cla ...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
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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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• Violet Carson
  {{Short description|British actress and singer (1898–1983)}} {{Use British English|date=August 2011}}
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• Diana Coupland
  ...actress, best remembered for her role in the sitcom ''[[Bless This House (British TV series)|Bless This House]]'', as Jean Abbott, the wife of [[Sid James]] ...e Workshop]] musical ''Make Me An Offer'', and soon appeared in [[West End theatre|West End]] shows such as ''[[Gigi (play)|Gigi]]'' and ''[[Not Now, Darling|
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