Ann Stephens
Ann Stephens was a British child actress and singer, popular in the 1940s. She was born in London. In July 1941 she recorded several songs, including a popular version of "The Teddy Bears' Picnic", "Dicky Bird Hop" and a setting by Harold Fraser-Simson of one of A. A. Milne's verses about Christopher Robin, "Buckingham Palace," which was often featured on the BBC Light Programme's Children's Favourites. In the same year she played Alice in musical recordings based on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
Later in the 1940s, Stephens appeared in several films, including In Which We Serve, Fanny By Gaslight, The Upturned Glass and Your Witness. In the 1950s she turned her attention to television drama. A surviving Pathe newsreel of 1945 records her visit to the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, London, for which her gramophone recordings had raised £8,000.Selected discography
- "Ann's Nursery Rhymes"
- "Buckingham Palace"
- "Christopher Robin "
- "Dicky Bird Hop"
- Songs set to poems from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
- "The Teddy Bears' Picnic"
- "King Wenceslas – A Christmas Play" HMV C3640/1 Nov. 1947
Selected filmography
- In Which We Serve
- Dear Octopus
- Fanny by Gaslight
- They Were Sisters
- The Upturned Glass
- No Room at the Inn
- Your Witness
- The Franchise Affair
- The Good Beginning
- Son of a Stranger
Weblinks
- , The Ann Stephens Nursery Series - No. 3. Ann Stephens with Vocal Trio, 3:00, without year. Swiss Foundation Public Domain, 2019
