Anne Ziegler

(1910 - 2003) English singer and actress. ** 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, beginning with a ‘B’ tour to rural areas and smaller towns in 1956. They began with Spring Quartet for Leonard Schach in Cape Town in September 1956. Ziegler also starred in The Glass Slipper, 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. *** They returned to the United Kingdom in 1978, settling in Llandudno in North Wales, and broadcasting and presenting An evening with Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth.