Grazina Frame (born Lydia Anna Grazina Obrycha; 6 November 1941) is an English stage and screen actress, singer and voice double.[Transport Salaried Staff Journal -1963 Page 203 "Grazina Frame whose photograph we reproduce on this page — qualified for the description as a result of providing the singing voice of ... Grazina's real name is Grazina Obrycha and she was born of Polish parents on November 6, 1941."]
Early life
Grazina Frame was born as
Lydia Anna Grazina Obrycha to Polish parents Zena Frame (mother) and Karol Jan Obrycki (father). She attended the Aida Foster Drama School and began her career as Grazina Obrycki.
Television
She first appeared on television as a servant girl in
A Time to be Born, a Christmas play, for
BBC Television (broadcast 24 December 1953).
On television, she appeared as entertainer Gloria Marsh in the 19 October 1969 episode of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), "That's How Murder Snowballs", and in the series Up Pompeii! (1970), The Fenn Street Gang (1971), Doctor in Charge (1972) and The Morecambe and Wise Show as a regular from 1971 to 1974, playing supporting roles to the comedians. Her latest screen appearance was in the 1996 television movie Cuts.
Stage
Frame appeared as Mavis, a Victorian mermaid, in
Follow That Girl, from 1959 to 1960, at the Vaudeville Theatre, London.
She played Carol Blitztein in Blitz!, the 1962 West End musical theater by Lionel Bart.[ Adelphi Theatre Playbills Theatre Collections: Programme Collection, Templeman Library. University of Kent at Canterbury][ Blitz! on MusicalHeaven.com. Accessed 3 Jan 2006.]
She subsequently appeared in the 1986 London production of Cabaret with Wayne Sleep, Kelly Hunter, Peter Land, and Rodney Cottam.
Music
Frame recorded a series of singles as
Grazina on His Master's Voice from 1962 to 1964, and sang with
Cliff Richard on several 1960s songs, as a result of having over-dubbed both
Carole Gray in the film
The Young Ones and
Lauri Peters in
Summer Holiday.
[Jon Kutner 1000 UK Number One Hits 0857123602 "... largely because the director, Sidney Furie, had the good sense to surround Cliff with excellent character actors, notably Robert Morley but also Melvyn Hayes, Richard O'Sullivan and Grazina Frame, who, incidentally, married the songwriter Mitch Murray..."]
Film
Her film appearances include
The Painted Smile (1962),
What a Crazy World (1963),
The Bargee (1964),
Every Day's a Holiday (1965) and
The Alphabet Murders (1965).
Personal life
She was married to songwriter and record producer
Mitch Murray until 1980. Their daughters
Mazz Murray and
Gina Murray would form the girl group Woman.
Frame subsequently remarried, to writer-producer Rob Dallas. She was a friend of
Bob Monkhouse.
Discography
As Grazina
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A: "Lover Please Believe Me" / B: "So What"
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A: "Another Like You" / B: "Don't Be Shy"
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A: "Be My Baby" / B: "I Ain't Gonna Knock On Your Door"
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A: "Stay Awhile" / B: "Let Me Go Lover"
With Cliff Richard
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"Nothing's Impossible" (Cliff Richard and Grazina Frame, A.B.S Orchestra) from The Young Ones
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"No One For Me" (Grazina Frame, A.B.S Orchestra) from The Young Ones
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"A Swinging Affair" (Grazina Frame, A.B.S. Orchestra) from Summer Holiday
Television
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The Morecambe & Wise Show (5 episodes, 1971–74)
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Up Pompeii! (1 episode, 1970)
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"That's How Murder Snowballs", episode of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969)
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