Vanessa Lee
Vanessa Lee, Baroness Graves, born Winifred Ruby Moule, was a British actress and singer. She was known for her appearances in Ivor Novello's musicals, especially after the Second World War. She was the leading lady in Ivor Novello's smash hit 'The King's Rapsody' from 1949-51, when Ivor who basically 'discovered' her died soon after the performance in February of 1951. It was Novello who suggested the stage name of 'Vanessa lee. The hit song from that show was 'Some day my heart will awake'.
Life
Winifred Moule was born in Streatham in 1920. She married British actor Peter Graves in 1960. That same year she made her first recording, of the operetta Bitter Sweet, with Robert Cardinali. In 1958/59, she played the lead in a successful revival of Old Chelsea by Richard Tauber, along with Graves and Kenneth McKellar. A Radio Luxembourg series, which ran from 1956 to 1958 as part of the radio programme This I Believe, was based on her career.Filmography
The Passing Show The Split as Little GirlArmchair Theatre The Adventurers as Trustee Banker's WifeDiscography
Bitter Sweet After the BallThose Dreaming Years- ''Shine through my dreams''