# Vivienne Chatterton
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{{Short description|British singer and actress (1896–1974)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Vivienne Cynthia Chatterton
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1896|06|08|df=y}}
| birth_place = [Paddington](/source/Paddington)
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|01|01|1896|06|08|df=y}}
| death_place = [London](/source/London)
| occupation = Singer and radio actor
| years_active = 1919-1974
}}
'''Vivienne Chatterton''' (8 June 1896 – 1 January 1974) was a British singer and noted radio actress of the 20th century.
==Biography==
Vivienne Chatterton was born in Paddington, London. Her father was English, her mother French. She was educated at the [Royal College of Music](/source/Royal_College_of_Music), for which she won an open scholarship in 1919.[{{cite book|title=Radio Who's Who|first=Cyrus|last=Andrews|publisher=Pendulum Publications Ltd|date=1947|page=66|url=https://archive.org/stream/radiowhoswho00andr#page/66/mode/2up/search/Chatterton|author-link=Cyrus Andrews}}][{{cite web|website=BFI Films, TV and People|title=Vivienne Chatterton|publisher=British Film Institute|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bac48a18e|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314043333/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bac48a18e|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 March 2018|access-date=17 March 2018}}]
Her early career was as a singer of [lied](/source/lied)er, [oratorio](/source/oratorio) and [opera](/source/opera), with roles in a number of London shows.[{{cite web|website=BBC Genome|title=The Rose of Persia|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9325f165d163483b887a3d1f8ff68a68|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317234202/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9325f165d163483b887a3d1f8ff68a68|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 March 2018|access-date=17 March 2018|publisher=BBC}}] and from the early 1930s she appeared as an actor in radio plays, and schools programmes. She appeared in several films during the 1930s including a lead role in the comedy ''[Love Up the Pole](/source/Love_Up_the_Pole)'' (1936) and supporting roles in ''[Mayfair Melody](/source/Mayfair_Melody)'' (1936) and ''[Annie Laurie](/source/Annie_Laurie_(1939_film))'' (1939). She appeared a number of times in singing roles in the first full year of regular [BBC Television](/source/BBC_Television) broadcasting.[{{cite web|website=BBC Genome|title=Hansel and Gretal|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9b67c6b995a94eac9d80b189a28d0627|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312103955/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9b67c6b995a94eac9d80b189a28d0627|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 March 2017|access-date=17 March 2018|publisher=BBC}}][{{cite web|website=BBC Genome|title=Thomas and Sally|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d2ebea2543ea401783c48e7f7365a44c|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317233814/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d2ebea2543ea401783c48e7f7365a44c|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 March 2018|access-date=17 March 2018|publisher=BBC}}]
She was engaged throughout the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War) on children's programmes, and in her post-war career she became noted as [radio actor](/source/radio_actor), voicing the character of Mrs Mountford in the popular ''[Mrs Dale's Diary](/source/Mrs_Dale's_Diary)'',[MacNeice p.144] and appearing in several hundred radio plays.[{{cite web|website=BBC Genome|title=Search - Vivienne Chatterton|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?adv=0&q=Vivienne+Chatterton&media=all&yf=1923&yt=2009&mf=1&mt=12&tf=00%3A00&tt=00%3A00#search|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317234218/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?adv=0&q=Vivienne+Chatterton&media=all&yf=1923&yt=2009&mf=1&mt=12&tf=00%3A00&tt=00%3A00#search|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 March 2018|access-date=17 March 2018|publisher=BBC}}] She was said to have an 'unusual talent for every type of dialect'.[{{cite book|title=Fighting Through to Kohima: A Memoir of War in India and Burma|first=Michael|last=Lowry|page=XXV|publisher=Pen and Sword Books Ltd|date=2003|isbn=9781844158027|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rq6napkYpXAC&q=Vivienne+Chatterton&pg=PR25}}][{{cite book|title=The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936: Shaping a Nation's Tastes|first=Jennifer Ruth| last=Doctor|page=334|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CVCtkShvDSkC&q=Stanton+Jefferies+BBC&pg=PA334|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=1999|isbn=9780521661171}}] She died in London on 1 January 1974, aged 77.[{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/5a28bb7ec5ff4568af9dc2f03f38c56e |title=The Adventures of Alice |date=23 December 1960 |publisher=[BBC Genome Project](/source/BBC_Genome_Project) |accessdate=18 March 2026}}]
==References==
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==Bibliography==
* MacNeice, Louis. ''Louis MacNeice: The Classical Radio Plays''. Oxford University Press, 2013.
==External links==
*{{IMDb name|0154185}}
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Category:Year of birth unknown
Category:1974 deaths
Category:British stage actresses
Category:British film actresses
Category:British radio actresses
Category:20th-century British actresses
Category:20th-century British women singers
Category:1896 births
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