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Known for:	The Sound of Music, General Hospital, How Green Was My Valley
Birth name:	Joan Boniface Winnifrith
Birthday:	2 January 1913, Igtham, Kent, England, UK

Mother of actress Venetia Stevenson. Mother of actor Jeffrey Byron She is the Goddaughter of Arthur Conan Doyle Goddaughter of Dame Sybil Thorndike She was awarded M.B.E. (Member of the British Empire) in 1982. She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in January 1993 for her services to film and television industry. Was paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident, and acted in a wheelchair for more than two decades. Died just a week before she was to have received a daytime Emmy award for "lifetime achievement". Her actor son, Jeffrey Byron, accepted on her behalf at the New York ceremony. Amber Tamblyn originally portrayed the adopted granddaughter of Lee's character on General Hospital. In the 1950s (long before Tamblyn's birth), Tamblyn's father, Russ Tamblyn, was married to Lee's daughter Venetia Stevenson. Grandmother of Erin Everly. One of three children born to an Anglican clergyman at St. Peters Church in Ightham, Kent, her godmother was legendary actress Sybil Thorndike. The blue-eyed blonde was occasionally a brunette in films. In Seven Sinners, she wore her hair darker because star Marlene Dietrich insisted on no competing blondes in her pictures. Initially studied with Elsie Fogarty at the Royal Albert Central School Hall in London. Later toured with the London Repertory Theatre where she earned the title "The British Bombshell." Comedian Jack Hulbert served as Best Man at her first wedding, and Alfred Hitchcock gave her way at her second. During WWII she volunteered for overseas duty with the U.S.O. entertaining Allied troops in North Africa, Iran and Sicily. Had two daughters with first husband Robert Stevenson. Following their divorce in 1944, Anna was given custody of younger daughter Caroline, but Venetia chose to live with her father. Anna was estranged from her daughter for 15 years. They reunited after appearing together in the films Jet Over the Atlantic and The Big Night. In the film Bedlam Anna darkened her hair so that audiences would take her more seriously and kept it dark for much of the next few years. One of her costumes was worn by Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind. Dubbed the voice of Patricia Morison who was playing the writer George Sand in the movie Song Without End because Harry Cohn wanted the character to have harsher vocal tones. Had three sons from her second marriage: John, Steven and Timothy. John passed away in 1986.

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