Anne Rogers (born 29 July 1933) is an English actress, dancer, and singer.

Career

Anne Rogers was born in

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and began her stage career at the age of 15. She was in the original London production of '' The Boy Friend'', playing the female lead of Polly Browne for nearly four years. She was unable to play in the Broadway production of ''The Boy Friend'' because of London commitments, but later went to the U.S. to play Eliza Doolittle in the Hollywood and Chicago productions of ''

My Fair Lady ''My Fair Lady'' is a musical theatre, musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story, based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play ''Pygmalion (play), Pygmalion'' and on the Pygmalion (1938 film), 1938 film ...

'', winning the

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for her performance. After two years, she returned to London to play the same role for three years at the Theatre Royal (Drury Lane). She appeared on Broadway in "Half a Sixpence" and "42nd Street.

When she played Jessie Matthews in the 2000 West End production of "Over My Shoulder," the ''Telegraph'' welcomed her back as a "marvellous old trouper."The Fall of a Showbiz Darling

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, 30 October 2003. She played Gladys in the gala New York performance of the musical ''

Busker Alley ''Busker Alley'' is a musical with music and lyrics by the Sherman Brothers and a book by AJ Carothers, based on the 1938 British film '' St. Martin's Lane''. Tommy Tune led a 1995 touring production as Charlie Baxter, a street entertainer in ...

'' in 2005, starring alongside

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and George S. Irving.

Stage shows

* '' The Boy Friend'' * ''

'' * ''

She Loves Me ''She Loves Me'' is a musical with a book by Joe Masteroff, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. The musical is the third adaptation of the 1937 play '' Parfumerie'' by Hungarian playwright Miklós László, following the 1940 f ...

'' * '' I Do! I Do!'' * No No Nanette * '' Half a Sixpence'' * '' Zenda'' * * '' 42nd Street'' * '' Gigi'' * ''

Camelot Camelot is a legendary castle and Royal court, court associated with King Arthur. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and, since the Lancelot-Grail cycle, eventually came to be described ...

'' * ''

A Streetcar Named Desire ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' is a play written by Tennessee Williams and first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of pe ...

'' (in South Africa) * ''Over My Shoulder'' (as

Jessie Matthews Jessie Margaret Matthews (11 March 1907 – 19 August 1981) was an English actress, dancer and singer of the 1920s and 1930s, whose career continued into the post-war period. After a string of hit stage musicals and films in the mid-1930s, suc ...

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The Drowsy Chaperone ''The Drowsy Chaperone'' is a Canadian musical with music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, and a book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar. The story concerns a middle-aged, asocial musical theater fan who, feeling "blue", decides to pl ...

TV appearances

* ''Elizabeth, The Queen'' * ''Rock and Roll Mom'' * '' Sparkling Cyanide'' * '' Birds on the Wing'' * ''Song of Songs'' * ''

Hogan's Heroes ''Hogan's Heroes'' is an American television sitcom created by Bernard Fein and Albert S. Ruddy which is set in a Prisoner-of-war camp, prisoner-of-war (POW) camp in Nazi Germany during World War II, and centers around a group of Allied prisoner ...

'' * ''

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'' (BBC 2008)' * ''

MacGyver Angus "Mac" MacGyver is the title character and the protagonist in the TV series ''MacGyver''. He is played by Richard Dean Anderson in the MacGyver (1985 TV series), 1985 original series. Lucas Till portrays a younger version of MacGyver in Mac ...

'' (Season 2 – Three for the Road)

Awards

Reference list

Notes Bibliography *

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rogers, Anne 1933 births Living people English female dancers English women singers English musical theatre actresses English television actresses Actresses from Liverpool