• Amelia Bayntun
  '''Amelia Bayntun''' (31 March 1919 – January 1988) was an English stage and television actress.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/fil ...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
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• Dilys Watling
  ...tling''' (born '''Dilys Rhys Jones''', 5 May 1942 – 10 August 2021) was an English actress, best known for appearing on [[British television|British televisio ...alculated Risk]]'', (also 1963); and the horror film, ''[[Theatre of Death|Theatre of Death]]'', (1967).
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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 ...th 1924).<ref name=AllmusicBio/><ref name=Green/> In 1924, she married the English actor [[Jack Raine]],<ref>"Miss Binnie Hale: Quiet Marriage of Popular Revu
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• Avis Bunnage
  ...Manchester]] – 4 October 1990, [[Thorpe Bay]], [[Southend-on-Sea]]) was an English actress of film, stage and television.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://e ...+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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• Hy Hazell
  {{Short description|English film actress (1919–1970)}} ...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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• Pat Ashton
  ...engaging [[cockney]], blonde persona is best remembered for appearances in English TV-sitcom film spin-offs ''[[On the Buses (film)|On the Buses]]'' (1971) an ...in ''[[Oh! What a Lovely War|Oh, What a Lovely War!]]''. Early [[West End theatre|West End]] appearances included ''[[Half a Sixpence (film)|Half a Sixpence]
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• April Olrich
  ...'' (17 July 1931 – 15 April 2014), born '''Edith April Oelrichs''', was an English ballerina and actress, born in [[Zanzibar]], now part of Tanzania. ...-april-olrich/ "Obituary: April Olrich"] ''The Stage'' (9 May 2014).</ref> Theatre critic [[Frank Rich]] (then a Harvard undergraduate) admired Olrich's appea
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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> ...|last1=Gaver|first1=Jack|title=Vivacious Jeannie Carson Is Waiting for New Musical|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4029677/kingsport_timesnews/|agency=Kin
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• Carmen Silvera
  ...sic and Dramatic Art]], before gaining experience in [[Repertory|repertory theatre]].<ref name="obit">{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obitua ...arnish'' and ''[[School for Wives]]'', which was directed by [[Peter Hall (theatre director)|Peter Hall]]. She also played a grandmother in the 1997 film ''[[
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• Betty Marsden
  '''Betty Marsden''' (24 February 1919 – 18 July 1998) was an English comedy actress. She is particularly remembered as a cast member of the radi ...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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• June Laverick
  '''June Laverick''' (born 11 June 1931) is an English film, television and stage actress. She followed an acting career in theatre, film and television and after retiring from acting in her 30s June moved b
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• Florence Desmond
  ...y 1993), better known by her [[stage name]] '''Florence Desmond''', was an English actress, [[comedian]] and [[impersonator]]. ...ving school in 1920, she embarked on a long and successful career in the [[theatre]], making her first public appearance performing comedy in the style of [[N
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• Diana Darvey
  The daughter of a former [[Windmill Theatre|Windmill Girl]], Pamela Cooper, Diana was raised and educated in [[Bristol] ...sario]] Colsada. Then for the next several years she appeared in [[musical theatre]] productions in and around Spain. It was during one such performance, in [
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• Diana Coupland
  ...-03-21}}</ref> – 10 November 2006), billed as '''Diana Coupland''', was an English actress, best remembered for her role in the sitcom ''[[Bless This House (B ...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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• Violet Carson
  {{Use British English|date=August 2011}} ...became a cinema pianist providing the [[w:Silent film#Live music and sound|musical accompaniment for silent films]].<ref name="express">{{cite web|url=http://
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• Hilda Braid
  '''Hilda Braid''' (3 March 1929 – 6 November 2007) was an English actress who had a long career on [[British television]]. She became well kn ...in ''[[The Waltz of the Toreadors]]'' from 1956 to 1957, and ''[[Pickwick (musical)|Pickwick]]'' from 1963 to 1964.<ref name="Indy"/> Later, she was a member
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• Aimi MacDonald
  ...h people|Scottish]] father was a [[Doctor (title)|doctor]]. Her mother was English. She is the youngest of three daughters.<ref name="The Oldie, March 2007">' ...e Mating Game 1972">Theatreprint programme for ''The Mating Game'' (Apollo Theatre, London, 1972)</ref> While performing with a troupe in [[Las Vegas, Nevada|
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• Dilys Laye
  ...e''' (born '''Dilys Lay'''; 11 March 1934 &ndash; 13 February 2009) was an English actress and [[screenwriter|screenwriter]], best known for her comedy roles. ...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
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• Ruth Madoc
  {{Use British English|date=December 2022}} ...ood, and she was brought up by her Welsh grandmother Etta Williams and her English grandfather<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.candis.co.uk/all-celebs/last-word
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• Helen Fraser (actress)
  ...en Fraser''' (born '''Helen Margaret Stronach'''; born 15 June 1942) is an English actress, who has appeared in many television series since the early 1960s.< ...theatre|West End]] production of ''[[Bad Girls: The Musical|Bad Girls: The Musical]]'' in 2007.<ref name="actress" />
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