Carol Raye

{{short description|Australian actress and comedian (1923–2022)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Carol Raye | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|AM|size=100}} | image = Carol Raye publicity still for the film Waltz Time (1945).jpg | imagesize = | caption = Carol Raye as Empress Maria in Waltz Time | birth_name = Kathleen Mary Corkrey | other_names = Carole Raye | birth_date = {{birth date|1923|01|17|df=yes}} | birth_place = Rotherhithe, London, Middlesex, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|06|18|1923|01|17|df=yes}} | death_place = Macleay Valley,<ref name="smh" /> New South Wales, Australia | years_active = 1938–2000 | occupation = {{hlist|Actress|comedienne|singer|dancer|radio and television producer|radio and television director|series creator|television executive|media personality}} | known_for =Films – {{hlist|Strawberry Roan|''Waltz Time''|''Green Fingers''|''While I Live''}}<br>Television – ''The Mavis Bramston Show'' as actress and producer<br>''Number 96'' As Baroness Amanda Von Pappenburg<ref name="OBIT"/> | spouse = 1-Clark Spencer married 1945-?<br />2-Robert Ayre Smith married 1951-2006 | children = 3 }}

'''Carol Raye'''<ref name="bg30">{{cite news |title=Spencer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32261317/carol_raye/ |access-date= 5 June 2019 |work= The Boston Globe |date= 29 January 1946 |location= Massachusetts, Boston |page=30 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (17 January 1923 – 18 June 2022<ref name="OBIT">[https://tvtonight.com.au/2022/06/vale-carol-raye.html Vale: Carol Raye]</ref> as '''Kathleen Mary Corkrey''' and also billed as '''Carole Raye''') was a British-born actress and comedian of film, television, radio, theatre and revue. She was also a singer, dancer, producer, director and media personality.

Her career spanned some seven decades, firstly as a film star and stage performer in the United Kingdom, in such movies as ''Song of Romance'', ''Strawberry Roan'' and ''Waltz Time'', after which she briefly worked in Kenya. She then immigrated to Australia, where she became notable for her small-screen roles,<ref name="AM"/> and as the first female television executive<ref name="Biobooklaunch">{{cite web|url=https://www.mediaweek.com.au/summer-reading-compelling-biography-of-australias-first-female-tv-executive-carol-raye/ |title= Summer reading: Compelling biography of Australia's first female TV executive Carol Raye |website=Mediaweek |first= James |last= Manning |date= 14 December 2023}}</ref> at a time when the industry was dominated by men.<ref name="smh" />

Raye was best known as the creator, producer and original star of the iconic TV satire ''The Mavis Bramston Show'', alongside Gordon Chater and Barry Creyton, as well as a semi-regular star of soap opera ''Number 96'', as Baroness Amanda von Pappenburg.<ref name="OBIT" />

==Early life== Raye was born in Rotherhithe, south east, London Docklands, Middlesex England, the daughter of Royal Navy commander Reuben B. Corkrey and Ethel McGlashan, an accomplished pianist.<ref name="bg30" /> The family travelled extensively, including stays in Bermuda and Malta, until her father was stationed at the Portsmouth Navy Base.<ref name="smh">{{cite web|url= https://www.smh.com.au/national/carol-raye-actor-leaves-legacy-of-stage-and-television-work-20220622-p5avlx.html |title= Carol Raye: actor leaves legacy of stage and television work |work= The Sydney Morning Herald |first= John |last= Sencruk |date= 22 June 2022}}</ref>

Raye's early ambition was to become a dance teacher, and she trained in ballet and ballroom at the Southsea School of Dance.<ref name="Hales1941">{{cite web |last=Hales |first= George |title= Carol Raye |date= 13 March 2018 |url= https://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/news-photo/dance-producer-freedie-carpenter-who-was-joinedthe-raf-news-photo/931708680 |website= Getty Images}}</ref>

==Career==

===Britain=== Raye won her first stage role in ''No, No, Nanette'' in 1938, and was discovered the following year by Australian-born choreographer and producer Freddie Carpenter, then operating a dance academy in Soho, who further trained her in dance.<ref name="Hales1941"/> Carpenter suggested her for a tour of the musical comedy ''Bobby Get Your Gun'' and was also instrumental in creating her stage name.<ref name="smh" />She made her professional debut opposite Bobby Howes and Bertha Bellmore at the Manchester Opera House in 1939.<ref name="smh" /> Her breakthrough stage role came only months later, in ''Funny Side Up'' at His Majesty's Theatre, which marked her London debut.<ref name="australian" />

Raye began her screen career with starring roles in films including ''Song of Romance'', which was the first British musical film shot in technicolor,<ref name="bgl">{{cite news|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32261286/carol_raye/|title= British Movie Actress, Bride of Winchester Captain |newspaper= The Boston Globe |date= 29 January 1946 |page= 1}}</ref> and ''Strawberry Roan'' (1945) by Maurice Elvey. However it was 1945 musical romance ''Waltz Time'' by Paul Stein, as Empress Maria that launched her international screen career. That year in April, she toured the United States with the lead role in a stage production of ''Bonanza Bound!''. She turned down a multi-year Hollywood contract, deciding return to London, where she subsequently appeared in features including ''Spring Song'' (1946) directed by Montgomery Tully and two films directed by John Harlow, ''Green Fingers'' (1947) and ''While I Live'' (1947) as well as several telemovies for the BBC.<ref name="AM"/>

Raye also played lead roles in many musicals and television productions in her native Britain.<ref name="AM"/> Her theatre roles included ''Tough at the Top'', ''Fun and Games'' and <ref name="Hales1941" /> ''The Merry Widow'',<ref>{{cite journal |title= "The Merry Widow" – The Girl Who Stops the Show |journal= Picture Post |volume=19 |issue=8 |location= London, England |date= 22 May 1943 |page= 18 |url= https://www.gale.com/intl/c/picture-post-historical-archive |access-date= 9 June 2019}}</ref> ''Dear Miss Phoebe''<ref name="phoebe"/> and ''The Ticket-of-Leave Man''.<ref name="ticket">{{cite web |title= The Ticket-of-Leave Man |website= Theatricalia |url= https://theatricalia.com/play/75z/the-ticket-of-leave-man/production/16xf |access-date= 29 December 2025}}</ref>

===Kenya=== Raye having remarried in 1951, and with her husband being offered by the British Government, the opportunity to run a 1000-acre farm in the overseas Kenya Colony, the family settled in Navaisha Town, in the West of Mombasa.<ref name="Smith2016">{{cite news |title= Livestock Expert Made a World of Difference in International Aid |url= https://www.smh.com.au/national/livestock-expert-made-a-world-of-difference-in-international-aid-20160314-gni95c.html |access-date= 9 June 2019 |work= The Sydney Morning Herald |date= 14 March 2016}}</ref> Whilst in Kenya, two filmmakers offered Raye the lead role in their film ''No Rain in Timbura'', which would be the first feature produced in that country.<ref name="smh"/> She worked briefly as a producer/director and on-screen talent for the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation from 1961 to 1964, making her one of the first faces on British East African television.<ref name="telegraph">{{cite news |title= Carol Raye, British-born comedy star who emigrated to Australia and hit the big time with The Mavis Bramston Show – obituary |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/06/24/carol-raye-british-born-comedy-star-who-emigrated-australia/ |access-date= 29 December 2025 |work= www.telegraph.co.uk |date= 24 June 2022}}</ref>

===Australia=== After the family emigrated to Australia in 1964, Raye was introduced to the ABC's Charles Moses, who in turn recommended her to Seven Network CEO James Oswin at Sydney station ATN-7, where she took a job as network assistant to the General Manager. She devised the concept of a satirical television series, based on Phillip Street Theatre revues and British TV series ''The Week That Was''. In November 1964, the network gave the green light for ''The Mavis Bramston Show'', in which Raye starred as one of three originals, along with Gordon Chater and Barry Creyton. She also produced the pilot episode and co-produced the series (with Michael Plant), until her departure from the show in late 1965. She resumed work on the series for the 1967 and 1968 final seasons.<ref name="Atterton">{{cite book |first= Margo |last= Atterton |title= The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Australian Showbiz |publisher= Sunshine Books |date= 1984 |isbn= 0-86777-057-0 |page= 185}}</ref>

In the 1970s, Raye played the ongoing comedy role of much-married British socialite and baroness Amanda von Pappenburg, aunt of Don Finlayson (played by Joe Hasham) whom she visits from Heidelberg, Germany, in the top-rated soap opera ''Number 96''.<ref name="19751025-TVWeek">{{cite news |title= The Baroness Turns Executive |website= TV Week |date= 25 October 1975 |page= 25}}</ref><ref name="OBIT" /> She also portrayed Amanda's lookalike, Claudine.<ref>{{cite book|last= Giles |first= Nigel |title= Number 96: Australia's Most Notorious Address |publisher= Melbourne Books |isbn= 9781925556001 |date= 2021}}</ref> The Duke of Bedford and his wife appeared as guests on the show. After two substantial stints with the series between 1973 and 1974, Amanda was permanently written out of the serial, but Raye remained on as creative director, casting regular characters, and reviewing scripts and storylines.<ref name="19751025-TVWeek"/>

From 1976 to 1977, Raye appeared in the medical soap opera ''The Young Doctors'', playing the guest role of Rosalie Parker. She also appeared in comedy series ''Up The Convicts'' with Frankie Howard and alongside Jack Thompson and Sam Neill in the 1979 film ''The Journalist''.<ref name="Biobooklaunch"/>

As a notable media personality, she often appeared on ''The Mike Walsh Show'', was a regular panellist on game show ''Blankety Blanks'' and was also the subject of an episode of ''This Is Your Life''.<ref name="OBIT" />

In the early 1980s, Raye had a four-year appointment with the Theatre Board of the Australia Council.<ref name="SMH1982">{{cite news |last= Clare |first= John |title= Will the Liberal Party steal Carol Raye? |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32261952/carol_raye/ |access-date= 5 June 2019 |work= The Sydney Morning Herald |date= 27 March 1982 |page= 47 |via= Newspapers.com}}</ref> She appeared in many Australian theatre productions, including ''California Suite'', ''The Pleasure of His Company'', ''Travelling North'', ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'', ''You Can't Take It With You'', ''Noises Off'', and ''Hay Fever''.<ref name="Atterton"/> Raye retired in 2000, following a guest appearance in ''SeaChange''<ref name="onecard">{{cite book |first= John |last= Senczuk |title= Carol Raye: Funny Business |url= https://onecard.network/client/en_AU/charlessturt |access-date= 29 December 2025 | isbn= 9781922952653 |date= 2023}}</ref> as the mother of Sigrid Thornton’s character.<ref name="Biobooklaunch"/> Subsequently she campaigned Seven Network boss Kerry Stokes to release a DVD of ''The Mavis Bramston Show'',<ref name="DVD">{{cite book |first= David |last= Knox |title= Carol Raye writes to Kerry Stokes in plea for Mavis Bramston DVD |url= https://tvtonight.com.au/2014/09/carol-raye-writes-to-kerry-stokes-in-plea-for-mavis-bramston-dvd.html |date= 4 September 2014 |access-date= 29 December 2025}}</ref> although in a DVD release of 32 episodes of ''Number 96'', she provided an audio commentary alongside co-star Elisabeth Kirkby,<ref name="commentary">{{cite web |title= Number 96 stars reunited for birthday |url= https://televisionau.com/2010/08/number-96-stars-reunited-for-birthday.html.html |date= 17 February 1973 |access-date= 29 December 2025 |website= Woman's Day |via= www.televisionau.com}}</ref> film and TV critic Andrew Mercado and The Honourable Michael Kirby.

==Personal life and death== On 3 November 1945,<ref name="bg30"/> Raye married<ref>{{cite news |title= Former Winchester Boy Wed to English Actress |url= https://archive.org/stream/WinStar_010446_032946/WinStar_1946_1_djvu.txt |access-date= 9 June 2019 |work= Winchester Star |date= 1 February 1946}}</ref> U.S. Army Engineer Captain Clark Spencer, a "prominent Winchester and Marblehead sportsman" (Massachusetts, USA).<ref name="bg1">{{cite news |title= British Movie Actress, Bride of Winchester Captain |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32261286/carol_raye/ | access-date =5 June 2019 |work= The Boston Globe |date= 29 January 1946 |location= Massachusetts, Boston |page= 1 |via = Newspapers.com}}</ref>

In 1951, she married prominent veterinarian Robert Ayre Smith (1926–2006).<ref name="Smith2016" /> They had three children, two of whom followed their mother into theatrical roles. Her eldest child, Sally Ayre Smith, is a former television producer, best known for the ABC series ''SeaChange'', but is now a director of an organic farm produce marketing business.<ref>{{cite web |last= Brown |first= Jamie |title= Sustainable direction for film producer |url= https://www.theland.com.au/story/4155030/a-change-of-heart/ |website= The Land |publisher= Fairfax Media |access-date= 9 June 2019 |date= 18 September 2016}}</ref> Her youngest daughter, Harriet, born in 1961<ref name="harriet">{{cite web |last= Senczuk |first= John |title= Carol Raye: actor leaves legacy of stage and television work |url= https://www.smh.com.au/national/carol-raye-actor-leaves-legacy-of-stage-and-television-work-20220622-p5avlx.html |website= The Land |publisher= The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date= 29 December 2025 |date= 22 June 2022}}</ref> started her career in the Sydney Theatre Company office<ref name="SMH1982"/> and is also an occasional actress.

Raye died peacefully at her home in Macleay Valley on the mid-north coast of New South Wales on 19 June 2022, at the age of 99, after a short illness. Her daughters were by her side. She was survived by her three children and three grandchildren.<ref name="harriet"/><ref name="australian">{{cite web |title= Carol Raye: The woman who changed television |url= https://www.theaustralian.com.au/culture/television/carol-raye-the-woman-who-changed-television |website= The Australian |access-date= 29 December 2025 |date= 3 July 2022}}</ref>

==Honours== Raye was honoured in the 2022 Commonwealth of Australian Queens Birthday Honours List, with an appointment to the ''Member of the Order of Australia'' (AM), with the citation ''For services to the arts as an actress and producer''.<ref name="AM">{{cite web|title=Ms Carol Raye AM|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2010940|website=Australian Honours|publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (Australia) |access-date=21 June 2022}}</ref><ref name="site">{{cite web|url=https://www.gg.gov.au/queens-birthday-2022-honours-list|title=The Queens Birthday 2022 Honours List}}</ref>

==Filmography==

===Film=== {| class="wikitable" ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Type |- | rowspan=3|1945 || ''Strawberry Roan'' || Molly Lowe || Feature film |- | ''Waltz Time'' || Empress Maria || Feature film |- | ''Dressing Up'' || || TV film |- | 1946 || ''Spring Song'' || Janet Hill / Janet Ware || Feature film |- | rowspan=2|1947 || ''Green Fingers'' || Jeannie Mansell || Feature film |- | ''While I Live'' (aka ''Dream of Olwen'') || Sally Grant || Feature film |- | rowspan=2|1949 || ''The Good Companions'' || Susie Dean || TV film |- | ''Happy Week-End'' || Polly || TV film |- | 1950 || ''Triple Bill'' || || TV film |- | 1954 || ''No Rain at Timbura'' || Mrs Carol Massey || |- | 1956 || ''Ivor Novello'' || || TV film |- | 1979 || ''The Journalist'' || Maggie || Feature film |- | 1984 || ''Man of Letters'' || Ursula Panhindle || TV film |- | rowspan=2|1985 || ''Remember Me'' || Jenny's mother || TV film |- | ''Relatives'' || Aunty Joan || Feature film |}

===Television=== {|class="wikitable" ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Type |- | 1964–1968 || ''The Mavis Bramston Show'' || Various roles || |- | rowspan=2|1965 || ''Today with Carol Raye'' || Host || |- | ''The Peek Snatchers'' || Self || |- | rowspan=2|1966 || ''66 And All That'' || Host || |- | ''Australian Playhouse''<ref name="across">{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|title=Forgotten Australian TV Plays: A Stay at Home and Across the Bridge|access-date=9 August 2024|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-australian-tv-plays-a-stay-at-home-and-across-the-bridge/|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|date=2021}}</ref> || The Woman || Teleplay: "Across the Bridge" |- | 1967 || ''The Delightfully Desperate, Daring and Different Doings of Daphne Davenport'' || Daphne Davenport || Teleplay |- | rowspan=2|1969 || ''The Pennyweathers'' || || TV pilot |- | ''Riptide'' || Lauriana French || 1 episode |- | 1970 || ''Tarbuck's Luck'' || Self || 1 episode |- | 1973–1975 || ''Number 96'' || Baroness Amanda Von Papenburg / Claudine || 35 episodes |- | rowspan=2|1976 || ''Up The Convicts'' || Lady Fitzgibbon || |- | ''This Is Your Life: Gordon Chater'' || Guest || 1 episode |- | 1976–1977 || ''The Young Doctors'' || Rosalie Parker || 15 episodes |- | 1977–1978 || ''Graham Kennedy's Blankety Blanks'' || Regular panellist || 16 episodes |- | 1977 || ''This Is Your Life: Carol Raye'' || Guest || 1 episode |- | rowspan=5|1978 || ''Cappriccio!'' || Host || |- | ''Loss of Innocence'' || Julie || Miniseries, 1 episode |- | ''Chopper Squad'' || Eileen Traill || 1 episode |- | ''Micro Macro'' || Team Leader || |- | ''Exploring the Psychic Mind'' || Host || |- | 1987 || ''Rafferty's Rules'' || || |- | rowspan=2|1994 || ''Mission Top Secret'' || Mrs. Jessie Burdock (uncredited) || 1 episode |- | ''The Mavis Bramston 30th Anniversary Special'' || Herself || TV special |- | 2000 || ''SeaChange'' || June Dawson || 1 episode |- | 2022 || ''Pushing the Boundaries: The Mavis Bramston Show'' || || TV documentary |}

==Theatre== {| class="wikitable" ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Type ! Ref. |- | 1938 || ''No, No, Nanette'' || Nanette || Southsea Theatre || <ref name="funnybusiness">{{cite web |url=https://theatreheritage.org.au/on-stage-magazine/1st-read/item/1051-book-review-carol-raye-funny-business |title=Book Review: Carol Raye: Funny Business |first=Peter |last=Pinne |website=Theatre Heritage |access-date=29 December 2025}}</ref> |- | 1939 || ''Bobby Get Your Gun'' || || Manchester Opera House || |- | 1940 || ''Funny Side Up'' (aka ''Laugh Clown Laugh'') || Ensemble || His Majesty's Theatre, London, Opera House Theatre, Blackpool || <ref name="funnybusiness"/><ref name="funny">{{cite web |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/3eg/funny-side-up/production/7mb |title=Funny Side Up |website=Theatricalia |access-date=29 December 2025}}</ref> |- | 1941 || ''Fun and Games'' || The Dancer || Princes Theatre, West End || <ref name="bb">{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/06/24/carol-raye-british-born-comedy-star-who-emigrated-australia/ |title=Carol Raye, British-born comedy star who emigrated to Australia and hit the big time with The Mavis Bramston Show – obituary |first=Peter |last=Pinne |website=www.telegraph.co.uk |date= 24 June 2022 |access-date=29 December 2025}}</ref> |- | 1943–1944 || ''The Merry Widow'' || Frou-Frou || His Majesty's Theatre, London || <ref name="bb"/><ref name="widow">{{cite web |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/3jb/the-merry-widow/production/7tx |title= The Merry Widow |website= Theatricalia |access-date= 29 December 2025}}</ref> |- | || ''The Love Racket'' || || || <ref name="bb"/> |- | 1947–1948 || ''Bonanza Bound'' || Belinda Da Vinci || US tour || <ref name="bb"/><ref name="ovrtur">{{cite web|url= https://ovrtur.com/production/2879965 |title= Bonanza Bound |website= www.ovrtur.com |access-date= 29 December 2025}}</ref> |- | 1949 || ''Tough at the Top'' || Ruritanian Princess || Adelphi Theatre, London || <ref name="bb"/><ref name="tough">{{cite web|url= https://theatricalia.com/play/3rv/tough-at-the-top/production/885 |title= Tough at the Top |website= Theatricalia |access-date= 29 December 2025}}</ref> |- | 1950–1951 || ''Dear Miss Phoebe'' || Miss Phoebe Throssel || UK tour || <ref name="phoebe">{{cite web|url= https://theatreheritage.org.au/notable-productions/quality-street/item/1044-quality-street-musicals |title= Quality Street: Musicals |first= Robert |last= Morrison |website= Theatre Heritage |access-date= 29 December 2025}}</ref> |- | 1956 || ''Harmony Close'' || Jill Grant || Theatre Royal, Birmingham || <ref name="harmony">{{cite web|url= https://theatricalia.com/play/7h9/harmony-close/production/16pt |title= Harmony Close |website= Theatricalia |access-date= 29 December 2025}}</ref> |- | 1957 || ''The Ticket-of-Leave Man'' || May Edwards || Arts Theatre, London || <ref name="ticket"/> |- | 1969 || ''Lie Back and Enjoy It'' || || Phillip St Theatre, Sydney || |- | 1970 || ''This, That and the Other'' || || Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea || <ref name="obituary">{{cite web|url= https://theatreheritage.org.au/on-stage-magazine/exeunt/item/804-obituary-carol-raye |title= Obituary: Carol Raye |first= Barry |last= Creyton |website= Theatre Heritage |access-date= 29 December 2025}}</ref> |- | 1976 || ''California Suite'' || Hannah Warren / Diana Nichols / Gert Franklyn || Ensemble Theatre, Sydney || |- | 1977 || ''The Pleasure of His Company'' || Katharine Dougherty || Theatre Royal Sydney, Comedy Theatre, Melbourne with AETT || |- | 1978 || ''The Mighty 1978 RSL Talent Quest'' || Performer / Guest Judge || Whitehorse Pub Theatre, Sydney || |- | 1979 || ''Travelling North'' || Frances || Nimrod, Sydney, Melbourne Athenaeum, Civic Playhouse, Newcastle with Hunter Valley Theatre Company || |- | 1980 || ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' || Mistress Alice Ford || Sydney Opera House with STC || |- | 1981 || ''Hay Fever'' || Judith Bliss || Playhouse, Newcastle with Hunter Valley Theatre Company || |- | rowspan="2"|1982 || ''You Can't Take It With You'' || || Sydney Opera House with STC || |- | ''Night and Day'' || Ruth Carson || Marian St Theatre, Sydney, Canberra Theatre Centre || <ref>{{cite web|url= https://digital.theatreheritage.org.au/pages/view.php?ref=2880&search=&offset=3360&order_by=extension&sort=ASC&archive=&k=&# |title= Night and Day (1982) |website= Theatre Heritage |access-date= 29 December 2025}}</ref> |- | 1982–1983 || ''Noises Off'' || Dotty Otley || Australian tour || <ref name="obituary"/> |- | 1984 || ''Agnes of God'' || Mother Miriam || Melbourne Athenaeum, University of Sydney with AETT || <ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.thetrust.org.au/pdf/trust-news/TN_1984_08_056.pdf |title= Tony Award Winning Play at the Footbridge |magazine= Trust News Vol.8 No.5 |via= Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust |date= August 1984 |access-date= 29 December 2025}}</ref> |- | 1985 || ''Stepping Out'' || Vera || Australian tour || <ref>{{cite web|url= https://digital.theatreheritage.org.au/pages/view.php?ref=2879&search=&offset=600&order_by=extension&sort=DESC&archive=0## |title= Stepping Out (1985) |website= Theatre Heritage |access-date= 29 December 2025}}</ref> |- | 1989–1990 || ''Hay Fever'' || ||Australian tour with Peter & Ellen Williams || |} Source: <ref>{{cite web | url=https://ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/4484 |title= Carol Raye |website= AusStage}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0713095|name=Carol Raye}} * {{discogs artist|Carol Raye}}

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