Anne Maud Corbett (née Hart; 26 April 1933 – 5 November 2023) was an English actress, dancer, singer and comedian.
[1] Hart, as an actress, was often referred to as Britain's answer to both Hollywood's Jane Russell and Broadway's Ethel Merman.
[7] Hart made her television debut in 1955, at the age of 22, as a regular on Saturday Night at the London Palladium with Tommy Trinder.
[8] Hart made her debut as an actress with the role of a music hall singer during an episode of the 1965 series Sherlock Holmes.
[10] Hart married the Four Jones Boys singer John H. Padley at the Holy Trinity Church in Wallington, Surrey, on 15 October 1957.
Hart and Corbett first met in the late 1950s, while she was working as a dancer at Winston's, Hanover Square, a club owned by Danny La Rue, and he was an up-and-coming comedian.
[21] She was treated for a hip fracture in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh following a fall at Muirfield Wood in the months leading up to her death.
Her death was announced to the public the following day in a statement by her youngest daughter Sophie:[19] "We lost my darling Mum at one o'clock in the morning.