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  • | birth_place = [[Bloemfontein, South Africa]] | nationality = South African
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  • ...d ''[[The Riddle of the Sands (film)|The Riddle of the Sands]]''.<ref name=stage/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LQKhAwAAQBAJ&q=olga ...ner]], ''City of New York'', by a German [[submarine]] whilst returning to South Africa.<ref name=telegraph/>
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  • {{short description|South African-born British actress}} | birth_place = [[w:Johannesburg|Johannesburg]], South Africa
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  • | birth_place = [[Cape Town]], South Africa | death_place = Cape Town, South Africa
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  • ...B&dq=April%20Olrich&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q=April%20Olrich&f=false ''The London Stage, 1950–1959: Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel''] (Rowman ...res/obituaries/2014/obituary-april-olrich/ "Obituary: April Olrich"] ''The Stage'' (9 May 2014).</ref> Theatre critic [[Frank Rich]] (then a Harvard undergr
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  • ...and the [[James Bond]] spoof ''[[No. 1 of the Secret Service]]'' (1977). Stage roles in London included Susie in [[George Gershwin|George and Ira Gershwin ...arroll]] recorded an album based on [[Burt Bacharach]] and [[Hal David]]'s stage show musical ''[[Promises, Promises (musical)|Promises, Promises]]'', and t
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Durban|Durban]], [[w:South Africa|South Africa]] ...m ''[[On the Buses]]'' from 1969 to 1973 including its film spin-offs and stage version and [[w:Aunt Sal|Aunt Sal]] in the [[w:BBC|BBC]] soap opera ''[[w:E
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  • | birth_place = [[Pretoria]], [[Union of South Africa]] | citizenship = [[South Africa]]<br>[[United Kingdom]]
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  • ....<ref name="Smurthwaite"/> Her husband Malcolm Stringer chose her eventual stage name from a gardening book, though Marta Cane ([[tomato]] cane) was misspel ...r recordings were marketed globally, in areas as far-flung as Scandinavia, South America and Australasia – with huge numbers bought by television audience
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  • ...st]]. On her return to England she appeared in the [[Ealing Comedies]], on stage in ''The Lovebirds'', ''Pillar to Post'' and ''What A Racket'', and on tele ...ondon,<ref>[[The Betty Driver Story]], 1 February 2011</ref> she married [[South Africa]]n singer Wally Peterson, something Driver claimed she did out of "d
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  • | birth_place = [[Sydney|Sydney]], [[New South Wales|New South Wales]], Australia ...nership that lasted until his death 62 years later. They acted together on stage and screen, initially in a series of [[revue|revue]]s, with Hulbert frequen
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  • ...om the age of eight onwards were [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] actresses [[Veronica Lake|Veronica Lake]], [[Lana Turner|Lana Turner]] and [[Jean Har ...> In September she was in ''[[A Boy, a Girl and a Bike]]'' (1949) by which stage her fee was £30 a week; she says that the movie took six months to shoot.<
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