Career
She was once described as "the most popular box office attraction in Australian musical comedy since Gladys Moncrieff."
Born in Seattle, she appeared on stage from an early age and worked steadily in vaudeville, radio and nightclubs. They appeared in the film Come Up Smiling (1939), managed the Cremorne Theatre in Brisbane, presenting everything from revues, pantomimes and musicals and entertained the American and Australasian troops and raising funds for the war effort. On television since its inception, she appeared as a Compere, Singer, Comedian and a Commercial presenter on the Graham Kennedy show Institute of Microtechnology. Notable also for theatre an early role saw Evie Hayes playing the lead role in the Australian production of Annie Get Your Gun, which ran for more than three years.
She later appeared regularly on television, including as a judge on Young Talent Time, having opened her own talent school, as well as acting in productions of Funny Girl, Kiss me Kate a revival of Oklahoma and Call Maine Madam.
She died of a heart attack, early in the morning of 26 December 1988, in Melbourne, Victoria.
