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Kitty Bluett
Kitty Bluett (18 August 1916 - 27 July 1994) was an English-Australian actress and singer for radio, television and film. She played Ted Ray's wife on the BBC radio show Ray's a Laugh from 1949 to 1961, the "longest running husband-wife radio show ever" with an estimated audience of 10 million. She appeared in several films, including A Son Is Born (1946), alongside Ron Randell. Bluett was the first female radio DJ in Australia.
Kitty Bluett was the third child of vaudevillian performer Fred Bluett and dressmaker Catherine (Katie) McKechnie. She had an older brother, Augustus "Gus" Bluett, a comedian, and a sister, Belle. When Bluett was 10 weeks old, her family moved to Australia. She attended school in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, as her family moved around performing.
Bluett first appeared on stage aged two-and-a-half in her father's vaudeville act at the Sydney Tivoli theatre, when she played "Boy Scout No. 5". As a child, she learnt tap dancing, ballet, singing and impersonation. When she was 12 she began doing impressions of Greta Garbo and ZaSu Pitts. She performed as part of her father's act for 15 years. Between 1940 and 1948, Bluett appeared on the Australian stage and screen. For the radio she was a Colgate-Palmolive radio artist where her professional partner was Dick Bentley.
She appeared on the front cover of Radio Pictorial of Australia magazine in April 1940 and the front cover of The ABC Weekly in November 1940. A 1941 newspaper article called her "possibly the leading comedienne in Australia to-day."
In 1942 Bluett made front page news for a "risqué" on-air joke she made about "flimsy nightdresses" which led to the threat of her being removed from broadcasting. The Chief Radio Inspector had received complaints from the Good Film and Radio Vigilance League among others, and required Bluett to satisfactorily explain the joke, which she had made on Ladies First, compered by Jack Davey. The case was dropped within weeks. Of the incident, Bluett was reported as saying, "I think it’' silly. If people are going to thin' that way and see double meanings, they shouldn’' listen."
Bluett would often play the role of soubrette (a 'saucy or flirtatious young woman’' in theatre productions.
Between 1943 and 1944, Bluett, together with Gladys Moncrieff, Bebe Scott and Flo Patonhe, were the first women to travel to New Guinea to entertain the Australian troops. While she was there, the American Marines made her an honorary Lieutenant.
In 1945 she appeared in Calling the Stars show, in support of the Fourth Victory Loan.
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Kitty Bluett
Kitty Bluett (18 August 1916 - 27 July 1994) was an English-Australian actress and singer for radio, television and film. She played Ted Ray's wife on the BBC radio show Ray's a Laugh from 1949 to 1961, the "longest running husband-wife radio show ever" with an estimated audience of 10 million. She appeared in several films, including A Son Is Born (1946), alongside Ron Randell. Bluett was the first female radio DJ in Australia.
Kitty Bluett was the third child of vaudevillian performer Fred Bluett and dressmaker Catherine (Katie) McKechnie. She had an older brother, Augustus "Gus" Bluett, a comedian, and a sister, Belle. When Bluett was 10 weeks old, her family moved to Australia. She attended school in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, as her family moved around performing.
Bluett first appeared on stage aged two-and-a-half in her father's vaudeville act at the Sydney Tivoli theatre, when she played "Boy Scout No. 5". As a child, she learnt tap dancing, ballet, singing and impersonation. When she was 12 she began doing impressions of Greta Garbo and ZaSu Pitts. She performed as part of her father's act for 15 years. Between 1940 and 1948, Bluett appeared on the Australian stage and screen. For the radio she was a Colgate-Palmolive radio artist where her professional partner was Dick Bentley.
She appeared on the front cover of Radio Pictorial of Australia magazine in April 1940 and the front cover of The ABC Weekly in November 1940. A 1941 newspaper article called her "possibly the leading comedienne in Australia to-day."
In 1942 Bluett made front page news for a "risqué" on-air joke she made about "flimsy nightdresses" which led to the threat of her being removed from broadcasting. The Chief Radio Inspector had received complaints from the Good Film and Radio Vigilance League among others, and required Bluett to satisfactorily explain the joke, which she had made on Ladies First, compered by Jack Davey. The case was dropped within weeks. Of the incident, Bluett was reported as saying, "I think it’' silly. If people are going to thin' that way and see double meanings, they shouldn’' listen."
Bluett would often play the role of soubrette (a 'saucy or flirtatious young woman’' in theatre productions.
Between 1943 and 1944, Bluett, together with Gladys Moncrieff, Bebe Scott and Flo Patonhe, were the first women to travel to New Guinea to entertain the Australian troops. While she was there, the American Marines made her an honorary Lieutenant.
In 1945 she appeared in Calling the Stars show, in support of the Fourth Victory Loan.