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Revision as of 14:25, 23 February 2025
Anne Ziegler (1910 - 2003) English singer and actress.
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Biography
Born Irené Frances Eastwood on 22 June 1910, the youngest child of Ernest and Eliza Frances Eastwood (née Doyle) of 13 Marmion Road, Sefton Park, Liverpool.
Career
She formed a singing partnership with her husband Webster Booth and they specialised in light classics and operetta. The pair were known as the "Sweethearts in Song" and were among the most famous and popular British musical acts of the 1940s.
They toured South Africa in 1948 and then returned to settle in 1956 and remained until 1978, teaching and made numerous appearances in the country.
They returned to the United Kingdom in 1978 where they broadcast on BBC radio, appeared on television in the Russell Harty Show and made personal appearances throughout the United Kingdom in An Evening with Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Ziegler and Booth began their stay in South Africa with a ‘B’ tour to rural areas and smaller towns in 1956. They later established a school of singing and stagecraft in Johannesburg, made an LP recording of their popular duets translated into Afrikaans and trained many promising singers.
They moved to the coastal town of Knysna in 1967. Ziegler and Booth gave their farewell concert in Somerset West in 1975, believing that their singing days were at an end.
As actor
Anne and Webster began with Spring Quartet for Leonard Schach in Cape Town in September 1956. Webster and Anne played Mr and Mrs Fordyce in Good Night Mrs. Puffin in 1963. She appeared in Angels in Love (1957), Waltz Time (1958) and also starred in The Glass Slipper (1959), which the National Theatre Organisation presented in conjunction with Children's Theatre and the Johannesburg Reps for Christmas 1959. It was a musical version of Cinderella which also starred Hilda Kriseman and Olive King.
As director
See also Booth, Webster
Awards, etc
Sources
Wikipedia [1].
Tucker, 1997.
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