Anne Rogers

b. 29 July 1933, Liverpool, Lancashire, England. After studying drama, singing and dancing, Rogers played a number of small roles before making her breakthrough in 1954 when she took the role of Polly in the original West End production of Sandy Wilson's engaging spoof of 30s musicals, The Boy Friend (1954). A last-minute cast change brought Rogers in at 48 hours notice, and it was thus she who introduced to British audiences both the title tune and ‘I Could Be Happy With You'. Later in the decade, she toured America as Eliza Doolittle in Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's ...