Dame Gracie FieldsDBE OStJ (born Grace Stansfield; 9 January 1898 – 27 September 1979) was a British actress, singer and comedian. A star of cinema and music hall,[2][3] she was one of the top ten film stars in Britain during the 1930s and was considered the highest paid film star in the world in 1937.[4] Fields was known affectionately as Our Gracie and the Lancashire Lass and for never losing her strong, native Lancashire accent.[5] She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and an Officer of the Venerable Order of St John (OStJ) in 1938, and a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1979.[6]
^"Prima facie, Miss Fields has, by her marriage to a husband who was at the time an Italian, lost British nationality and acquired Italian nationality ... She ought therefore to be treated as an alien.", 'Our Gracie' risked fall from grace over wartime marriage to Italian, 21 Dec, 2021
^"Gracie Fields". Bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 6 May 2016.
^"Gracie Fields - Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos - AllMovie". AllMovie.
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^Fields never lost the speaking accent of Lancashire, where her birthplace, the mill town of Rochdale, Fields, Gracie (1898–1979), 21 Dec, 2021
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