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- Jeanne Mitchell OAM (11 May 1938 – 7 November 2020), professionally known as Jeanne Little (pronounced 'Jeanie Little'), was an Australian entertainer, comedienne and television personality who won the Gold Logie award in 1977 (a dual honour that year with Don Lane winning as Best Male Personality).
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Jeanne Mitchell OAM (11 May 1938 – 7 November 2020), professionally known as Jeanne Little (pronounced 'Jeanie Little'), was an Australian entertainer, comedienne and television personality who won the Gold Logie award in 1977 (a dual honour that year with Don Lane winning as Best Male Personality). Her first success on television was on The ...
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Jeanne's descent was as swift and unpredictable as her ascent had been. With not much more than a sewing machine and an outrageously infectious personality, she went from minding her own business making outfits for society ladies and drag queens in a dress shop in Sydney's Paddington, to the highest-paid woman in television. She crashed into televi...
Jeanne had grown up the youngest of seven children with a Glaswegian single mother, Catherine, who was a tailor. "It was a poor household," Katie says. Jeanne would make summer outfits out of tea towels. "Mum loved fashion and always wanted to look fabulous." But in those early years on The Mike Walsh Show, she was only being paid $25 a week. "She'...
After her father died in July 2019 at the age of 89, Katie came across a box of love letters he had written. It slowly dawned on her that they were not to her mother but to a male lover, someone she had known as Uncle Colin, who had worked in the interior design business in the basement. Barry had met Jeanne soon after they had broken up. "I rememb...
Around 2010, when Jeanne was still doing her cabaret show, Katie started getting concerned phone calls from people. Jeanne was forgetting her lines on television, she was making wildly inappropriate comments "I remember in those last years of Beauty and the Beast that she would say some really odd things, she'd say frankly offensive and crazy thing...
Nov 13, 2018 · Jeanne Little was an Australian TV icon. She burst onto our screens on The Mike Walsh Show in 1974 and with her madcap personality, a cross between Phyllis Diller and Lady Gaga, and that unmistakable voice, she instantly became a star.
Jeanne Little. Actress: Cuckoo in the Nest. Jeanne made her television debut on Network Ten's The Mike Walsh Show (1969) in September 1974. Invited on as a guest, she quickly became a regular, moving with the "Walsh Show" to Channel Nine, where as part of the team, she wowed and won audiences for the next 15 years.
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Nov 7, 2020 · Australian entertainer Jeanne Little has died aged 82, her daughter Katie said on social media. Key points: Little made her TV debut on the Mike Walsh Show in 1974. Three years after making her first appearance on television, Little won the Gold Logie. Besides being a hit with on-screen viewers, Little also excelled on stage.
Lisa Wilkinson has paid tribute to beloved Australian entertainer Jeanne Little who died aged 82 over the weekend. Wilkinson worked with Little on panel show Beauty and the Beast in the 90s ...
Popular Australian entertainer Jeanne Little, known for her unique fashion and “hello darlings!” catchphrase, has died at 82 after a long health battle.
