Lois Green

Lois Green (1914–2006) born Mabel Lois Green, was an Australian actress who worked extensively on stage. She started as a child and was known for singing, dancing and acting in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Early life Green was born Mabel Lois Green in Melbourne, in December 1914, the only child of Beaumont Hamilton Green, a carriage-builder, and his wife Mabel (née Trethewey).

She made her stage debut aged five and worked extensively as a singer, actor and dancer. She had dancing lessons from Jennie Brenan who supplied many dancers for J.C.Williamson's company.

Career In the 1930s she toured extensively with J.C. Williamsons Ltd. Her first professional engagement appears to have been in the ballet sequences of a 1930 revival of The Maid of the Mountains starring Gladys Moncrieff. From 1930 she was almost continuously employed by J. C. Williamson's, appearing in musical comedies, operettas and pantomimes including Katinka, Sinbad the Sailor, Blue Mountain Melody (1934), Ball at the Savoy (1935) and Over She Goes (1937). In the early 1930s she performed alongside the young Robert Helpmann, and in the 1934 Australian musical Blue Mountain Melody she appeared with Cyril Ritchard, Madge Elliott and Don Nicol. Reviewing the film Filmink described Green as "pretty, can act, sing and dance, and is full of charm; she’s wonderful." Her first London work was in the chorus of the revue All Clear at the Queen's Theatre, where she understudied Beatrice Lillie, and she sang at the Café de Paris in an act with the comedian Fred Emney. By mid-1944 she was in Cairo performing for ENSA, and at the end of the war returned to London, where she played the title role in the pantomime Cinderella at the Adelphi Theatre to positive reviews.

In late 1946 J. C. Williamson's flew Green back to Australia to appear in the musical comedy Follow the Girls, in which she played the strip-tease artist Bubbles La Marr. The Argus noted her "metamorphosis from sweet ingenue to wisecracking, and slightly hardboiled, comedienne".

In 1954 she had a supporting role as Lady Plymdale in Noël Coward's musical After the Ball, directed by Robert Helpmann, which ran for 188 performances at the Globe Theatre. Her last known performances were in a Glasgow run of Cinderella in 1956. No, No, Nanette (1938) - stage Jill Darling (1938) - play Gone to the Dogs (1939) - film All Clear (1939)- London revue Cafe de Paris (1940) - revue Follow the Girls (1946–47) - stage musical with Don Nicol No, No, Nanette (1948) - British TV Jill Darling (1949) - British TV Happy Week-End (1949) - British TV Cinderella (1950) - British TV After the Ball (1954) - stage musical