'''Jill Melford''' (23 November 1931 – 21 February 2018)<!-- A DOB of 23 November 1931 is given in some sources but that might be an error, see h ...in New York and made her theatre debut in 1949 as a dancer in a production of ''[[Oklahoma!]]'' in New York, before appearing in other Broadway performan

...bringing up two sons but returning for a last engagement in the title role of ''[[The Merry Widow|The Merry Widow]]'' in 1969. ...n in [[Reading, Berkshire|Reading]], Berkshire, the last of three children of Frederick Holton, a locomotive engine driver, and his wife Ethel, ''née''