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Joan Turner
Joan Turner (24 November 1922 – 1 March 2009) was a British comedienne and singer born in Belfast and brought up in London. She died of a heart attack.
==Early years==
Her father was Leonard Turner, who became a London bus driver and subsequently taxicab driver after serving with the British Army in Ireland.〔 At the age of 11, Turner won a talent competition at a cinema in Peckham, South London, doing impressions of Shirley Temple and Jessie Matthews. She won a scholarship to the Sacred Heart convent in Victoria, London but told her teachers an intention to pursue a theatrical career and left school.〔 In 1937, aged 14, she performed onstage at a London music hall - the Queen’s Theatre, Poplar - and, the following year, toured in a revue〔 and, after that, performed with The Crazy Gang in 1954.〔
In the 1960s and 1970s, she was a major star in the UK,〔 becoming the highest-earning female singer in Britain,〔 and a disc jockey on her own radio show.〔 Turner was nicknamed "the women's answer to Harry Secombe"〔 and presented her own television show.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Hats off to Joan )〕 She topped the bill at the London Palladium and appeared in the 1963 Royal Variety Show topping the bill ahead of The Beatles〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chit chat - Turning back time )〕 She also topped bills in New York and Las Vegas〔 and was romantically linked to Peter Sellers, Tony Hancock and Terry-Thomas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='Voice of an angel' comic dies )〕
The London ''Evening News '' once said that she had "the voice of an angel and the wit of a devil".〔 In its obituary, ''The Guardian'' claimed "she could sing a pop or operatic song with her four-and-a-half-octave soprano voice, do an almost eerily convincing impersonation of Bette Davis, and then switch to a stand-up comic routine."〔
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