Rochdale’s Grace Stansfield became Britain’s top female comedienne and the world’s best-paid female film star.

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The young cotton-worker forged her way into showbiz with help from her indomitable mother. She dazzled on-stage and in films, becoming a Royal favourite with her down-to-earth Northern wit and her astonishing singing voice. A radio broadcast she made, following recovery from illness, suspended proceedings in Parliament, and she was always revered as ‘Our Gracie’.

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