Frances Day (born Frances Victoria Schenk; December 16, 1907 â€" April
29, 1984) was an American actress and singer who achieved great
popularity in the UK in the 1930s.Her career began as a nightclub
cabaret singer in New York City and London. She made her London stage
debut as a double act at the New Cross Empire with the dancer John
Mills (later a distinguished actor), billed as "Mills and Day". This
led to a chorus role in the 1929 West End production of The Five
O'Clock Girl at the Hippodrome, which toured the provinces in 1930.
She married Beaumont Alexander, an Australian agent and publicist in
London, in 1927. He masterminded her early career as a dancer in West
End nightclubs, where she created favourable notoriety by performing
in a G-string with only an ostrich fan for cover. The couple divorced
in 1938, and she never remarried.She acted regularly in films until
1941. In the 1950s she made only four films but found a new career as
a regular panelist on the British version of What's My Line?, which
ran from July 16, 1951 until May 13, 1963.
29, 1984) was an American actress and singer who achieved great
popularity in the UK in the 1930s.Her career began as a nightclub
cabaret singer in New York City and London. She made her London stage
debut as a double act at the New Cross Empire with the dancer John
Mills (later a distinguished actor), billed as "Mills and Day". This
led to a chorus role in the 1929 West End production of The Five
O'Clock Girl at the Hippodrome, which toured the provinces in 1930.
She married Beaumont Alexander, an Australian agent and publicist in
London, in 1927. He masterminded her early career as a dancer in West
End nightclubs, where she created favourable notoriety by performing
in a G-string with only an ostrich fan for cover. The couple divorced
in 1938, and she never remarried.She acted regularly in films until
1941. In the 1950s she made only four films but found a new career as
a regular panelist on the British version of What's My Line?, which
ran from July 16, 1951 until May 13, 1963.
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