Fields, Dame Gracie

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Fields, Dame Gracie [ Grace Stansfield] (1898–1979), English comedienne and singer, for some years the most popular entertainer in Britain, known as ‘our Gracie’. She became famous in the revue Mr Tower of London, which opened at the Alhambra in 1923. A big music-hall attraction, she reached the height of her fame in the 1930s, being loved for her down-to-earth Lancashire personality and her comic songs such as ‘The Biggest Aspidistra in the World’. Her singing voice was excellent. During the Second World War she gave numerous concerts for the troops and raised vast sums in America for the war effort. Her signature tune was ‘Sally’ and during the war she became closely associated with ‘Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye’. She settled in Capri after her third marriage in 1951.

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