Vanessa Lee

This article is about the British actress and singer born 1920. For the American singer often recognised with similar name, see Vanessa Carlton. For other purposes, see Vanessa Lee (disambiguation).

Vanessa Lee
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Born	Winifred Ruby Moule (1920-06-18)18 June 1920 Streatham, London, UK
Died	15 March 1992(1992-03-15) (aged 71) London, U.K.
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	Film actress, singer
Spouse	Peter Graves, 8th Baron Graves (m. 1960–1992)

Vanessa Lee (18 June 1920 - 15 March 1992), born Winifred Ruby Moule, was a British actress and singer.[1][2] She was known for her appearances in Ivor Novello's musicals, especially after the Second World War. She was the leading lady in Ivor Novello's smash hit 'The King's Rapsody' from 1949-51, when Ivor who basically 'discovered' her died soon after the performance in February of 1951. It was Novello who suggested the stage name of 'Vanessa lee. The hit song from that show was 'Some day my heart will awake'.

Life

Winifred Moule was born in Streatham in 1920. She married British actor Peter Graves in 1960.[3] That same year she made her first recording, of the operetta Bitter Sweet, with Robert Cardinali.[4] In 1958/59, she played the lead in a successful revival of Old Chelsea by Richard Tauber, along with Graves and Kenneth McKellar. A Radio Luxembourg series, which ran from 1956 to 1958 as part of the radio programme This I Believe, was based on her career.[5]

Filmography

• The Passing Show (1953)
• The Split (1968) as Little Girl
• Armchair Theatre (1969) (episode: The Frobisher Game)
• The Adventurers (1970) as Trustee Banker's Wife

Discography

• Bitter Sweet (1960)
• After the Ball
• Those Dreaming Years
• Shine through my dreams

References

1. "Vanessa Lee | SecondHandSongs". secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
2. "Lee, Vanessa 1920-1992 [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
3. "Vanessa Lee". IMDb. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
4. "Bitter Sweet, Vanessa Lee", WorldCat, retrieved 2019-09-11
5. "Vanessa Lee (Winifred Ruby Moule) - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 11 September 2019.

External links

• Vanessa Lee at IMDb