Grazina Frame

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Grazina Frame
Born
Lydia Anna Grazina Obrycha

(1941-11-06) 6 November 1941 (age 83)
Borough of Fylde, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Other names
  • Grazina Obrychi
  • Grazina (recording name)
Education Aida Foster Theatre School
Occupation(s)Singer, stage and screen actress, voice double
Spouse Mitch Murray (until 1980; divorced)
Children Mazz Murray
Gina Murray
Relatives Max Murray (grandson)

Grazina Frame (born Lydia Anna Grazina Obrycha; 6 November 1941) is an English stage and screen actress, singer and voice double. [1]

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Early life

Grazina Frame was born as Lydia Anna Grazina Obrycha to Polish parents Zena Frame (mother) and Karol Jan Obrycki (father). She attended the Aida Foster Drama School and began her career as Grazina Obrycki.

Television

She first appeared on television as a servant girl in A Time to be Born, a Christmas play, for BBC Television (broadcast 24 December 1953). [2]

On television, she appeared as entertainer Gloria Marsh in the 19 October 1969 episode of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) , "That's How Murder Snowballs", and in the series Up Pompeii! (1970), The Fenn Street Gang (1971), Doctor in Charge (1972) and The Morecambe and Wise Show as a regular from 1971 to 1974, playing supporting roles to the comedians. Her latest screen appearance was in the 1996 television movie Cuts. [2]

Stage

Frame appeared as Mavis, a Victorian mermaid, in Follow That Girl , from 1959 to 1960, at the Vaudeville Theatre, London. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

She played Carol Blitztein in Blitz! , the 1962 West End musical by Lionel Bart. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [3] [13]

She subsequently appeared in the 1986 London production of Cabaret with Wayne Sleep, Kelly Hunter, Peter Land, and Rodney Cottam. [14]

Music

Frame recorded a series of singles as Grazina on His Master's Voice from 1962 to 1964, and sang with Cliff Richard on several 1960s songs, as a result of having over-dubbed both Carole Gray in the film The Young Ones and Lauri Peters in Summer Holiday . [15] [2]

Film

Her film appearances include The Painted Smile (1962), What a Crazy World (1963), The Bargee (1964), Every Day's a Holiday [16] (1965) and The Alphabet Murders (1965). [2]

Personal life

She was married to songwriter and record producer Mitch Murray until 1980. Their daughters Mazz and Gina would form the girl group Woman. [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] Frame subsequently remarried, to writer-producer Rob Dallas. She was a friend of Bob Monkhouse. [2]

Discography

As Grazina

With Cliff Richard

Television

References

  1. Transport Salaried Staff Journal -1963 Page 203 "Grazina Frame whose photograph we reproduce on this page — qualified for the description as a result of providing the singing voice of ... Grazina's real name is Grazina Obrycha and she was born of Polish parents on November 6, 1941."
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Randall and Hopkirk (Declassified) - Who's Who?". www.randallandhopkirk.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  3. 1 2 "Blitz!: Opposites". YouTube. 2014-11-20. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  4. "Production of Follow That Girl | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  5. "Grazina Frame | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  6. "Follow That Girl (Original London Cast, 1960)". Ovrtur. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  7. "FOLLOW THAT GIRL (Original London Cast) SEPIA 1156". sepiarecords.com. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  8. Adelphi Theatre Playbills Theatre Collections: Programme Collection, Templeman Library. University of Kent at Canterbury
  9. Blitz! on MusicalHeaven.com. Accessed 3 Jan 2006.
  10. "Blitz!: Tell Him-Tell Her!". YouTube. 2014-11-14. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  11. "Blitz!: Far Away". YouTube. 2014-11-20. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  12. "No One for Me but Nicky". YouTube. 2014-11-06. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  13. Stewart, John (2012-11-22). Broadway Musicals, 1943-2004. McFarland. ISBN   9781476603292 . Retrieved 2020-05-09 via Google Books.
  14. "Cabaret - 7". Theatregold. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  15. Jon Kutner 1000 UK Number One Hits 0857123602 "... largely because the director, Sidney Furie, had the good sense to surround Cliff with excellent character actors, notably Robert Morley but also Melvyn Hayes, Richard O'Sullivan and Grazina Frame, who, incidentally, married the songwriter Mitch Murray..."
  16. "Various Artists - Every Day's A Holiday" . Retrieved 2020-05-09 via www.45cat.com.
  17. Not Panicking Ltd. "h2g2 - The 2010 Isle of Wight Festival". h2g2.com. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  18. "English songwriter, record producer and author Mitch Murray with his wife, English singer and actress Grazina Frame, and their daughter, UK, circa 1973. (Photo by Victor Blackman/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)". Getty Images . Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  19. "Songwriter Mitch Murray (2nd L) is accompanied by daughters Mazz Murray (2nd R) and Gina Murray (L) along with ex-wife Grazina Frame (R) after receiving a CBE from Prince Charles, Prince of Wales during an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace on December 05, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Jonathan Brady - WPA Pool/Getty Images)". Getty Images . Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  20. "WWRY GALLERY". brianmay.com. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  21. "JEWISH MUSIC INSTITUTE - Jewish Culture Day 2006". Jewish Music Institute . Retrieved 2020-05-09.