Career
Allmusic described her as "an exuberant comic actor and lively singer and dancer". As a teenager, Hy Hazell started life as a performer in the chorus of the West End production of Rodgers and Hart’s On Your Toes (1937). She was in British films Meet Maine at Dawn (1946),, and B-movies like and The Lady Craved Excitement (both 1950), where she got to sing.
She also established a reputation as - to quote one of her own programme notes - "English pantomime"s most distinguished post war principal boy".
A dynamic stage presence, to say nothing of her long legs, made her a favourite for the very British tradition of having glamorous young women play the Principal boy in pantomime and for years she was extremely popular in this seasonal form of theatre. Hy Hazell died suddenly, unexpectedly.
She was playing Golde in Fiddler on the Roof in London"s West End, and following a performance, she died accidentally, choking to death while eating a steak, on May 10, 1970.