Ann Stephens

Ann Stephens (21 May 1931 – 15 July 1966) was a British child actress and singer, popular in the 1940s. She was born in London. In July 1941 she recorded several songs, including a popular version of "The Teddy Bears' Picnic",[1][2] "Dicky Bird Hop" (with Franklin Engelmann) and a setting by Harold Fraser-Simson of one of A. A. Milne's verses about Christopher Robin, "Buckingham Palace,"[3] which was often featured on the BBC Light Programme's Children's Favourites. In the same year she played Alice in musical recordings based on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

Later in the 1940s, Stephens appeared in several films, including In Which We Serve (1942), Fanny By Gaslight (1944) and The Upturned Glass (1947). In the 1950s she turned her attention to television drama. A surviving Pathe newsreel of 1945 records her visit to the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, London, for which her gramophone recordings had raised £8,000.[4]

Selected discography

Selected filmography

References

  1. ↑ Ann Stephens at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ↑ Ann Stephens – Teddy Bear's Picnic – YouTube
  3. ↑ "Buckingham Palace" (Ann Stephens, 1941), YouTube
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ Ann Stephens – Ann's Nursery Rhymes – YouTube
  6. ↑ "Buckingham Palace" (Ann Stephens, 1941), YouTube
  7. ↑ Ann Stephens – Christopher Robin (Vespers) – YouTube
  8. ↑ Ann Stephens – Dicky Bird Hop – YouTube
  9. ↑ Ann Stephens – Alice in Wonderland – YouTube
  10. ↑ Ann Stephens – Teddy Bears Picnic – YouTube
  11. ↑ Ann Stephens – Wedding of the Gingerbreads – YouTube


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