Anna Russell(1911-2006)
- Actress
Actress, singer, lyricist, and composer, Anna Russell began as a folk
singer on BBC radio in 1931, in Canada in 1940, and since 1943, has
appeared as a soloist on the concert stage, making her New York City
debut in a one-woman show in 1948 with which she has toured the United
States, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada;
she wrote the lyrics and music for Anna Russell's Little Show (1953)
and played the Witch in the opera Hansel and Gretel (1953); with Robert
Paine Grose and Joan White, she founded Grow Productions, Inc. in 1963,
which presented Lady Audley's Secret at the New York World's Fair in
1964; she has composed, written, and performed her own material on
Columbia recordings, is the author of The Power of Being a Positive
Stinker (1955) and the Anna Russell Songbook (1958), and was the
President of the B & R Music Publishing Company. She received the
Canadian Women's Press Club Award in 1956 as the best Canadian comedy
writer of the year.
