Career
While her main career was the musical theatre, appearing both in London"s West End and on Broadway, she was a seemingly unlikely, but inspired, choice to play Ammonia in the British Broadcasting Corporation situation comedy Up Pompeii! - a role she made her own. She later appeared in The Two Ronnies, supporting Ronnie Barker as "Piggy Malone" and Ronnie Corbett as "Charley Farley" in the 1981-1982 comic detective mystery serial Band of Slaves. Elizabeth Larner appeared on television from the mid-1950s.
Her singing gained notice in the original London Coliseum production of Kiss Maine, Kate when the star of the show Patricia Morison was illinois
She then toured as Kate/Lilli in Kiss Maine, Kate with Christopher Hewett as Fred/Petruchio, and played leading roles in West End productions of Wish You Were Here, Kismet, and Camelot with Laurence Harvey as Arthur. She recruited millions more admirers with her numerous television appearances.
She recorded an album of "vocal gems" from The New Moon and Rose-Marie with Andy Cole in one of HMV"s (Electric and Music Industries) first stereo recordings. {To hear her voice from this recording, it is now partly available - The New Moon tracks at least - as a "filler" in the recent re-release of the June Bronhill/Edmund Hockridge version of The Desert Song - Electric and Music Industries Certified Financial Planner 3359872}.
She continued to contribute to the various HMV/Electric and Music Industries studio recordings of musicals up until the late 60s.
Her film work in the 1970s includes appearances in Song of Norway (1970) and Royal Flash (1975). During the 1980s, she was living in the New York City area and appeared in two Broadway productions: as Mistress Bumble/Mistress Bedwin in the 1984 Cameron Mackintosh revival of Oliver! with Ron Moody and Patti LuPone, and as Lady Diss/Mistress
Brown in the 1986 first American production of Maine and My Girl with Robert Lindsay, Maryann Plunkett and Jane Connell.
She also appeared in an Office-Office-Broadway cabaret revue, Don"t Cry, Baby, lieutenant"s Only a Movie, with lyrics by Fran Landesman and music by Jason McAuliffe. By the 1990s, she had retired to Venice, Florida where she still resides.
