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| name        = Hy Hazell
| name        = Hy Hazell
| image      = Actress_Hy_Hazell.jpg
| image      = Actress Hy Hazell.jpg
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| caption    = Hazell in ''[[Up in the World]]'' (1956)
| birth_date  = {{Birth date|1919|10|04|df=y}}{{efn|name=DOB|A majority of sources give 1919 as her year of birth, although the [[w:British Film Institute|British Film Institute]] cites 1920 and ''[[w:The Oxford Reference|The Oxford Reference]]'' cites 1922.}}
| birth_date  = 4 October 1919{{efn|name=DOB|A majority of sources give 1919 as her year of birth, although the [[British Film Institute]] cites 1920 and ''[[The Oxford Reference]]'' cites 1922.}}
| birth_name  = Hyacinth Hazel O'Higgins
| birth_name  = Hyacinth Hazel O'Higgins
| birth_place = [[Streatham]], [[County of London|London]], England
| birth_place = [[w:Streatham|Streatham]], [[w:County of London|London]], England
| death_date  = 10 May 1970 (aged 50)
| death_date  = {{Death date and age|1970|05|10|1919|10|04|df=y}}
| death_place = London, England
| death_place = London, England
| occupation  = Stage and screen actress, singer
| occupation  = Stage and screen actress, singer
| spouse      = Edward Adam Primrose Jenkins
| spouse      = {{Marriage|Edward Adam Primrose Jenkins|1950|June 1960|end=d.}}
}}
}}


'''Hyacinth Hazel O'Higgins''' (4 October 1919 – 10 May 1970), stage name '''Hy Hazell''', was a British actress of theatre, musicals and revue as well as a contralto singer and [[film actress]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/7778|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115065316/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/7778|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-15|title=Hy Hazell|work=BFI}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Hy-Hazell|title=Hy Hazell Theatre Credits|accessdate=18 October 2016|publisher=broadwayworld.com}}</ref> [[AllMusic]] described her as "an exuberant comic actor and lively singer and dancer".<ref name=allmusic>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/hy-hazell-mn0001008861/biography|title=Hy Hazell - Biography|work=AllMusic.com|accessdate=18 October 2016}}</ref> A pretty brunette,  with long legs, she was billed as Britain's answer to  [[Betty Grable]].<ref name="site">{{cite web|url=http://filmstarfacts.com/2015/06/03/tragic-hollywood-accidental-deaths-pt-6|title=Tragic Hollywood: Accidental Death's (Pt 6)|publisher=filmstarfacts.com|author=Alan Royle|date=3 June 2015|accessdate=18 October 2016}}</ref>
'''Hyacinth Hazel O'Higgins''' (4 October 1919 – 10 May 1970), stage name '''Hy Hazell''', was a British actress of theatre, musicals and revue as well as a contralto singer and [[w:film actress|film actress]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/7778|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115065316/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/7778|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-15|title=Hy Hazell|work=BFI}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Hy-Hazell|title=Hy Hazell Theatre Credits|accessdate=18 October 2016|publisher=broadwayworld.com}}</ref> [[w:AllMusic|AllMusic]] described her as "an exuberant comic actor and lively singer and dancer".<ref name=allmusic>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/hy-hazell-mn0001008861/biography|title=Hy Hazell - Biography|work=AllMusic.com|accessdate=18 October 2016}}</ref> A pretty brunette,  with long legs, she was billed as Britain's answer to  [[w:Betty Grable|Betty Grable]].<ref name="site">{{cite web|url=http://filmstarfacts.com/2015/06/03/tragic-hollywood-accidental-deaths-pt-6|title=Tragic Hollywood: Accidental Deaths (Pt 6)|publisher=filmstarfacts.com|author=Alan Royle|date=3 June 2015|accessdate=18 October 2016}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
Hazell was born in [[Streatham]] in South London on 4 October 1919.{{efn|name=DOB}} As a teenager, she started life as a performer in [[Chorus line|the chorus]] of the [[West End theatre|West End]] production of [[Rodgers and Hart]]'s ''[[On Your Toes]]'' (1937). She later had a long and successful run of leading roles in musicals, including ''[[Expresso Bongo]]'' at the [[Saville Theatre]] in 1958, as heartless Dixie Collins; as Mrs Squeezum in the [[Mermaid Theatre]]'s ''[[Lock Up Your Daughters (musical)|Lock Up Your Daughters]]'' in 1959 (playing for almost 2,000 performances); as ex-[[Charles B. Cochran|Cochran]] girl Kay Connor in ''[[Charlie Girl]]'' at the [[Adelphi Theatre]] from 1965 ; and as Mrs Peachum in a notable ''[[Beggar's Opera]]'' by the [[Prospect Theatre Company]] in 1968.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}
Hazell was born in [[w:Streatham|Streatham]] in South London on 4 October 1919.{{efn|name=DOB}} As a teenager, she started life as a performer in [[w:Chorus line|the chorus]] of the [[w:West End theatre|West End]] production of [[w:Rodgers and Hart|Rodgers and Hart]]'s ''[[w:On Your Toes|On Your Toes]]'' (1937). She later had a long and successful run of leading roles in musicals, including ''[[w:Expresso Bongo|Expresso Bongo]]'' at the [[w:Saville Theatre|Saville Theatre]] in 1958, as heartless Dixie Collins; as Mrs Squeezum in the [[w:Mermaid Theatre|Mermaid Theatre]]'s ''[[w:Lock Up Your Daughters (musical)|Lock Up Your Daughters]]'' in 1959 (playing for almost 2,000 performances); as ex-[[w:Charles B. Cochran|Cochran]] girl Kay Connor in ''[[w:Charlie Girl|Charlie Girl]]'' at the [[w:Adelphi Theatre|Adelphi Theatre]] from 1965 ; and as Mrs Peachum in a notable ''[[w:Beggar's Opera|Beggar's Opera]]'' by the [[w:Prospect Theatre Company|Prospect Theatre Company]] in 1968.


Her appearances also include:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://theatricalia.com/person/zrr/hy-hazell |title=Hy Hazell |website=theatricalia.com |accessdate=April 28, 2022}}</ref>
Her appearances also include:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://theatricalia.com/person/zrr/hy-hazell |title=Hy Hazell |website=theatricalia.com |accessdate=April 28, 2022}}</ref>
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==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Hazell's given named of Hyacinth was abbreviated to "Hy" by [[Nigel Patrick]] when they were in Italy during World War II entertaining troops.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/the-english-actress-hy-hazell-who-has-come-to-australia-to-news-photo/1079428396 |title=Hy Hazell |website=[[Getty Images]] |accessdate=April 28, 2022}}</ref>
Hazell's given named of Hyacinth was abbreviated to "Hy" by [[w:Nigel Patrick|Nigel Patrick]] when they were in Italy during World War II entertaining troops.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/the-english-actress-hy-hazell-who-has-come-to-australia-to-news-photo/1079428396 |title=Hy Hazell |website=[[w:Getty Images|Getty Images]] |accessdate=April 28, 2022}}</ref>


She married Edward Adam Primrose Jenkins, [[land agent]] to the [[John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough|Duke of Marlborough]], in 1950; he died in June 1960 at age 50.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100618795/hy-hazells-husband-dies-at-50/ |title=Hy Hazell's husband dies at 50 |newspaper=[[Evening Standard]] |location=London |page=11 |date=June 4, 1960 |accessdate=April 28, 2022 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref>
She married Edward Adam Primrose Jenkins, [[w:land agent|land agent]] to the [[w:John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough|Duke of Marlborough]], in 1950; he died in June 1960 at age 50.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100618795/hy-hazells-husband-dies-at-50/ |title=Hy Hazell's husband dies at 50 |newspaper=[[w:Evening Standard|Evening Standard]] |location=London |page=11 |date=June 4, 1960 |accessdate=April 28, 2022 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref>


In the summer of 1969, Hazell began playing Golde in ''[[Fiddler on the Roof]]'' in London's [[West End theatre|West End]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100619186/rooftop-girl/ |title=Rooftop Girl |newspaper=Coventry Standard |location=[[Coventry]], England |page=7 |date=July 24, 1969 |accessdate=April 28, 2022 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> On 10 May 1970, a Sunday when there was no performance, she died accidentally by choking to death whilst eating a steak at a friend's house.<ref name=allmusic/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100617618/hy-hazell-choked-to-deathinquest/ |title=Hy Hazell Choked to Death—Inquest |newspaper=Kensington Post |location=[[Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea|Kensington and Chelsea, London, England]] |page=64 |date=May 22, 1970 |accessdate=April 28, 2022 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> An inquest found that her blood showed a very high alcohol level: "A high enough level to account for some carelessness about eating and possibly the swallowing of food and therefore to have been almost a certain reason for her choking."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/actors-actresses/100490-hy-hazell.html|title=Hy Hazell profile|publisher=britmovie.co.uk|accessdate=18 October 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624223639/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/actors-actresses/100490-hy-hazell.html|archivedate=24 June 2016}}</ref><ref>[http://www.thisistheatre.com/londonshows/fiddlerontheroof.html#1967 Fiddler on the Roof, thisistheatre.com]</ref>
In the summer of 1969, Hazell began playing Golde in ''[[Fiddler on the Roof]]'' in London's [[West End theatre|West End]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100619186/rooftop-girl/ |title=Rooftop Girl |newspaper=Coventry Standard |location=[[Coventry]], England |page=7 |date=July 24, 1969 |accessdate=April 28, 2022 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> On 10 May 1970, a Sunday when there was no performance, she died accidentally by choking to death whilst eating a steak at a friend's house.<ref name=allmusic/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100617618/hy-hazell-choked-to-deathinquest/ |title=Hy Hazell Choked to Death—Inquest |newspaper=Kensington Post |location=[[Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea|Kensington and Chelsea, London, England]] |page=64 |date=May 22, 1970 |accessdate=April 28, 2022 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> An inquest found that her blood showed a very high alcohol level: "A high enough level to account for some carelessness about eating and possibly the swallowing of food and therefore to have been almost a certain reason for her choking."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/actors-actresses/100490-hy-hazell.html|title=Hy Hazell profile|publisher=britmovie.co.uk|accessdate=18 October 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624223639/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/actors-actresses/100490-hy-hazell.html|archivedate=24 June 2016}}</ref><ref>[http://www.thisistheatre.com/londonshows/fiddlerontheroof.html#1967 Fiddler on the Roof, thisistheatre.com]</ref>
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==External links==
==External links==
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Hy Hazell
Actress Hy Hazell.jpg
Born
Hyacinth Hazel O'Higgins

(1919-10-04)4 October 1919[a]
Streatham, London, England
Died10 May 1970(1970-05-10) (aged 50)
London, England
Occupation(s)Stage and screen actress, singer
Spouse
Edward Adam Primrose Jenkins
​
​
(m. 1950; died 1960)​

Hyacinth Hazel O'Higgins (4 October 1919 – 10 May 1970), stage name Hy Hazell, was a British actress of theatre, musicals and revue as well as a contralto singer and film actress.[1][2] AllMusic described her as "an exuberant comic actor and lively singer and dancer".[3] A pretty brunette, with long legs, she was billed as Britain's answer to Betty Grable.[4]

Career

Hazell was born in Streatham in South London on 4 October 1919.[a] As a teenager, she started life as a performer in the chorus of the West End production of Rodgers and Hart's On Your Toes (1937). She later had a long and successful run of leading roles in musicals, including Expresso Bongo at the Saville Theatre in 1958, as heartless Dixie Collins; as Mrs Squeezum in the Mermaid Theatre's Lock Up Your Daughters in 1959 (playing for almost 2,000 performances); as ex-Cochran girl Kay Connor in Charlie Girl at the Adelphi Theatre from 1965 ; and as Mrs Peachum in a notable Beggar's Opera by the Prospect Theatre Company in 1968.

Her appearances also include:[5]

  • A Talent to Amuse; 1969 – 1970, Phoenix Theatre, London.
  • Miss Miniver, Ann Veronica; 17th April – May 1969, Cambridge Theatre, London.
  • The Beggar’s Opera; 1968 – 1969, Apollo Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue), London.
  • The Confederacy; 19th – 24th October 1964, Cambridge Arts Theatre.
  • Mollie Plummer, No Strings; 30th December 1963 – March 1964, Her / His Majesty’s Theatre, London.
  • Dixie Collins, Expresso Bongo; started 31st March 1958, Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham and Saville Theatre, London.
  • Esmeralda Leigh, Dead On Nine; started 24th August 1955, Westminster Theatre, London.
  • Anne Etherton, Ten Men And A Miss; 18th June – 13th October 1951, Aldwych Theatre, London and Opera House, Manchester.

Films

Hazell was in British films Meet Me at Dawn (1946), The Yellow Balloon (1953), and B-movies like The Body Said No! and The Lady Craved Excitement (both 1950), the latter part allowing her to sing. Within the British tradition of having glamorous young women play the principal boy in pantos, she became a favourite. She established a reputation as "English pantomime's most distinguished post war principal boy". For years she was extremely popular in this seasonal form of theatre.[3]

Personal life

Hazell's given named of Hyacinth was abbreviated to "Hy" by Nigel Patrick when they were in Italy during World War II entertaining troops.[6]

She married Edward Adam Primrose Jenkins, land agent to the Duke of Marlborough, in 1950; he died in June 1960 at age 50.[7]

In the summer of 1969, Hazell began playing Golde in Fiddler on the Roof in London's West End.[8] On 10 May 1970, a Sunday when there was no performance, she died accidentally by choking to death whilst eating a steak at a friend's house.[3][9] An inquest found that her blood showed a very high alcohol level: "A high enough level to account for some carelessness about eating and possibly the swallowing of food and therefore to have been almost a certain reason for her choking."[10][11]

Selected filmography

Notes

  1. ^ a b A majority of sources give 1919 as her year of birth, although the British Film Institute cites 1920 and The Oxford Reference cites 1922.

References

  1. ^ "Hy Hazell". BFI. Archived from the original on 15 January 2009.
  2. ^ "Hy Hazell Theatre Credits". broadwayworld.com. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  3. ^ a b c "Hy Hazell - Biography". AllMusic.com. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  4. ^ Alan Royle (3 June 2015). "Tragic Hollywood: Accidental Deaths (Pt 6)". filmstarfacts.com. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  5. ^ "Hy Hazell". theatricalia.com. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
  6. ^ "Hy Hazell". Getty Images. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
  7. ^ "Hy Hazell's husband dies at 50". Evening Standard. London. 4 June 1960. p. 11. Retrieved 28 April 2022 – via newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Rooftop Girl". Coventry Standard. Coventry, England. 24 July 1969. p. 7. Retrieved 28 April 2022 – via newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Hy Hazell Choked to Death—Inquest". Kensington Post. Kensington and Chelsea, London, England. 22 May 1970. p. 64. Retrieved 28 April 2022 – via newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Hy Hazell profile". britmovie.co.uk. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  11. ^ Fiddler on the Roof, thisistheatre.com

External links

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