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Jean Bayless: Tributes paid to West End Sound of Music actress – BBC News
The actress, who performed as Maria in 1960, died on Friday her family say.
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image captionJean Bayless, pictured outside the Prince’s Theatre in 1958, was an “amazing woman”, said her son Daniel Johnson
The star of the original West End production of The Sound of Music has died, her family said.
Actress Jean Bayless starred in the role of Maria in the show in 1960, and also played the role of Mrs Cunningham in the soap opera Crossroads.
The 88-year-old died on Friday in Birmingham, after being diagnosed with bone cancer, her nephew Richard Johnson…
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