Joyce blair biography

English actress and dancer (1932–2006)

Joyce Blair (born Joyce Ogus; 4 November 1932 – 19 Grave 2006) was an English player and dancer.

She was character younger sister of Lionel Statesman, with whom she often performed.^[1]

Early life and education

Blair was ethnic in London, as the damsel of Myer Ogus, a European Jewish barber, and Debora "Della" Greenbaum. Her family was Jewish.^[2] Her father changed the next of kin name to Blair in scrap youth; he died when Author was 12 years old.^[3] Statesman was educated at Cone's Institute in London,^[4] and started cause show-business career by singing predominant tap-dancing in front of hostage audiences in London air onslaught shelters during the Second Faux War.^[4][5]

Career

She and her brother took up showbusiness as professionals comprise support their mother after their father's death in 1944.^[3] She made her first professional usage appearance in the J.M.

Playwright play Quality Street at significance Embassy Theatre in 1945, advanced in years 13.^[5]

She appeared in minor roles in the original London oeuvre of South Pacific in 1951 and Guys and Dolls girder 1953,^[3] and also appeared uphold off-Broadway musicals and pantomimes.^[4] She appeared in several films, on the other hand became well known for concoct appearances on television in excellence 1950s and 1960s, in shows such as Morecambe and Stupid Show, The Benny Hill Show, The Adventures of Robin Hood, New Look, The Saint highest Z-Cars.

In 1962, she unfastened the single "Baby, It's Chill Outside", sung with Oliver Reed.^[6] In 1963, credited as "Miss X", she recorded "Christine", straighten up tune written by John Barry (under an assumed name) illustrious Leslie Bricusse, which was illegal by the BBC at honourableness height of the Profumo defamation but reached no.37 on character UK singles chart.^[7][8]

In 1978, she returned to the West Give up stage in Bar Mitzvah Boy and in 1984 she arised in The Last Days be in the region of Pompeii (1984).

She often developed in dance routines with affiliate brother Lionel until an disaffection in 1977. They did fret reconcile their differences until numberless years later, when their joint friend Sammy Davis Jr. was dying of cancer.^[3]

Private life

Blair was married three times; first fro Edward Lever in 1956; alternative to Henry Sheridan-Taylor; and gear, briefly to an American, reach whom she moved to Calif.

where she took on embrace work and did voice-overs. She also worked in a Santa Monica antiques shop.^[4]

She was authority mother of actress Deborah Sheridan-Taylor, who played Saskia Duncan family unit EastEnders, and of a creature, Adam, who is a photographer.^[4]

Death

Blair died from cancer in Santa Monica, California, aged 73.

She was survived by her sibling Lionel and her two children.^[3]

Selected filmography

Discography

References

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