45 years ago today, Dame Gracie Fields passed away aged 81.
Born Grace Stansfield in Rochdale, Lancashire in January 1898, she went on to become a mega-star of cinema and music hall.
One of the top 10 movie stars of the 1930s and the highest paid film star in the world in 1937, she was affectionately known as “Our Gracie” and “the Lancashire Lass” as she never lost her broad Lancashire accent.
Her health deteriorated in 1979 after performing an open-air concert on the Royal Yacht, which was docked in Capri’s harbour (her island home) at the time, and after a spell recovering in hospital she passed away. She was laid to rest in Capri’s protestant cemetery in a white marble tomb.
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