What is Gracie Fields?
[[File:Dame Gracie Fields Allan Warren.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Fields in 1973]] '''Dame Gracie Fields''' [[Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire|<small>DBE</small>]] (born '''Grace Stansfield''', 9 January 1898 &ndash; 27 September 1979), was an [[England|English]] [[actress]], [[singing|singer]] and [[comedienne]], particularly active during the [[World War II|Second World War]]. She was a star of both [[movie]]s and [[music hall]]. Fields was born on 9 January 1898 in [[Rochdale]], [[Lancashire]], [[England]]. She died on 27 September 1979 from complications of [[pneumonia]] in Il Canzone Del Mare, [[Capri]], [[Italy]], aged 81. ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} *{{IMDb name|0276247}} *[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/61559|63200/Gracie-Fields/ Gracie Fields] at [[Turner Classic Movies]] *[http://www.joanmoules.co.uk/gracie.html Gracie Fields: A Biography by Joan Moules] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225010543/http://www.joanmoules.co.uk/gracie.html |date=2008-02-25 }} *[http://www.bigredbook.info/gracie_fields.html Gracie Fields' appearance on This Is Your Life] *[http://film.virtual-history.com/person.php?personid=4790 Photographs and literature] *[https://archive.org/details/GracieFieldsBiographerDavidBret/ Biographer David Bret interview with Nathan Morley on Cyprus Radio] *[http://www.rfwilmut.clara.net/stars/fields.html Nine digitally restored Gracie Fields recordings] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110071346/http://www.rfwilmut.clara.net/stars/fields.html |date=2014-01-10 }} {{actor-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Fields, Gracie}} [[Category:1898 births]] [[Category:1979 deaths]] [[Category:Actors from Lancashire]] [[Category:Comedians from Lancashire]] [[Category:Deaths from pneumonia]] [[Category:Infectious disease deaths in Italy]] [[Category:English movie actors]] [[Category:English singers]] [[Category:English stage actors]] [[Category:English television actors]] [[Category:Musicians from Lancashire]] [[Category:People from Rochdale]]