René Strange

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Rene Strange with a puppet

Rene Strange or Renee Strange ( bl. 1940s – 1950s) was a British entertainer who was known as a singing cartoonist and puppeteer . She performed with daring sex appeal in a mini dress with black silk stockings in variety shows , on the ice and in pantos .

youth

Rene Strange was the daughter of Leslie Strange (1893 / 94-1960 in Brighton ), who was originally called Wilfred St. Clair and appeared as an actor in comedies by Charles Dickens as well as people like Adolf Hitler and Stan Laurel .

Career

Strange was able to draw caricatures while she sang, which earned her the title Singing Cartoonist . Her black silk stockings showed off her legs with a touch of risqué when she performed weird numbers in the puppet theater.

A British Pathé film shows Strange drawing a caricature of Winston Churchill while singing a patriotic song. She also appeared in the 1946 Royal Variety Performance . In a British Pathé film from 1951 she appeared with her dolls Annie Pride of the Rockies and Mr. Bertram, an Inspector of Forms , who inspected the shapes of Rene's legs instead of forms, and Samoa the Hula Hula Girl.

Her performance with Norman Wisdom in Paris to Piccadilly , a production of Val Parnell and Bernard Delfont 1952 in the Prince of Wales Theater in London, was as new Folies-Bergere - Revue described. In the same year she appeared with Ann Hogarth as a puppeteer of Muffin the Mule in Pulling Strings , one of Harold Bairn for New Realm Pictures on film produced.

Strange's puppet theater dealt in particular with adult subjects. In 1953 she commissioned Bob Pelham of the Pelham Puppets to create the opera singer with flowing bosom, the drunken singer with wobbly legs, the choirboy with a halo and slingshot, a can-can dancer and a striptease artist.

In 1955 she played with her marionettes in the Liseberg amusement park in Gothenburg , as part of a variety tea program with the eponymous trampoline demonstration Paulette and Renee as well as plate juggling and hand shadow games . She performed with Benny Hill , Jack Beckitt and Peter Vernon at the Floral Theater in Scarborough in 1958 . She also competed at mimes , Eistanzshows and ice pantomimes like the role of Principal Boy , a protagonist in the men's suit, a. Almost nothing is known about her private life.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Variety Obituaries , August 10, 1960 issue, in: Volume 5, 1957–1963, Garland Publishing, Inc., NY & London, 1988.
  2. ↑ a b c d David Leech: Pelham Puppets . Ramsbury: Crowood Press, 2008, ISBN 9781847970558 , p. 34.
  3. ^ Leslie Strange - How Time Flies ... British Pathé, October 24, 1940. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  4. ^ Rene Strange 1940 . December 26, 1940.
  5. ↑ Rene Strange adjusting her stockings before the curtain rises for the dress rehearsal of the Royal Command Variety Performance. November 4, 1946. Getty Images. Retrieved June 23, 2018.
  6. ↑ Performances: 1946, London Palladium ( en )
  7. ↑ a b Puppet Girl . British Pathé, November 19, 1951. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  8. ^ A Program for the 1950s "Paris to Piccadilly" at the Prince of Wales Theater . Retrieved July 12, 2018.
  9. ↑ Denis Gifford ( ed. ). The British Film Catalog Volume 1: Fiction Film, 1895–1994 . 3. Edition. Routledge. ISBN 9781317740629 .
  10. ^ "Review Digest," Wolfram, Billboard , July 16, 1955, p. 11.
  11. ↑ Ross, Robert: Benny Hill - Merry Master of Mirth: The Complete Companion . Batsford, London 2014, ISBN 978-1-84994-258-4 , p. 54.

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personal data
SURNAME Strange, Rene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strange, Renee; Strange, Renee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British entertainer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1940
DATE OF DEATH after 1950