Joy Nichols
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Joy Nichols (17 February 1925 – 23 June 1992) born in Sydney, Australia was a comedienne and actress who worked in Australia, Britain and the USA. She is best known as a star of Take It From Here on BBC Radio.
Originally part of a song-and-dance double act with her brother George, Joy Nichols moved to Britain in 1946 to further her career. The producer Charles Maxwell gave her a major role in the last series of Navy Mixture in 1947 starring with Jimmy Edwards. Guest appearances by fellow Australian Dick Bentley led to the pairing of Bentley's writer Denis Norden with Edwards and Nichols' writer Frank Muir on Take It From Here (1948-1960), starring Edwards, Bentley and Nichols, who both sang and played comedy.
In 1952, Nichols left the cast of Take It From Here and married Wally Peterson, an American musical comedy performer who was then touring in the London production of Oklahoma!. She was replaced by June Whitfield (comedienne) and Alma Cogan (singer), just as the show took off with the appearance of The Glums. Nichols returned with her husband to the USA in 1953 and had a daughter, Roberta. She had supporting roles in a number of Broadway musicals in the 1950s and 1960s, including Redhead[1] and Darling of the Day[1], but was unable to secure lead roles and finally left show-business. Latterly she worked as a retail assistant.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Joy Nichols. Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved on 2007-10-24.
- Frank Muir (1997). A Kentish Lad. Bantam Press, London. ISBN 0-593-03452-X. Frank Muir's autobiography.
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