Molly Byron

Mary Alice "Molly" Byron (sometimes written Mollie Byron) (1911-1975) was an Australian singer, musician, and male impersonator.

Career Mary Byron was born in Fitzroy North, Victoria in 1911. As a teenager, she began performing at the Tivoli Theatre, Melbourne as a male impersonator under her performer name Molly Byron. Then, at nineteen, she began broadcasting under the name Nina with Al Hammett's ABC Dance Band. She continued her act as a male impersonator during this time,

In 1945, Byron was making appearances on ABC Radio programs such as the Victory Show and Happy-Go-Lucky. In 1946, Larry Crosby, Bing Crosby's brother, had offered Byron a contract in America, however she had turned it down. Across her career she sang with Jim Davidson’s and Ern Pettifer’s orchestras, and Graeme Bell.

Her brother James Norman Byron was an entertainer and composer. He had played for the Fitzroy Football Club and composed their Premiership Song for their win in 1944. Molly Byron and her brother composed the song When they find a Possie for the boys from Aussie to entertain troops during World War II.

Although she was said to have made recordings during World War II, these were taken back to America,