- Fred Groves, Sally in Our Alley, 1931. Has to be Gracie Fields! First film of the UK music hall icopn, best known, indeed loved, as “Our Gracie.” It got her to Hollywood where she didnlt really fit in. Indeed, if she hadn’t been such a memorable si ger, she would have berern just another character actress. Archie Pitt wrote her first two UK films, in his short 30s.
Birth year: 1882Death year: 1940Other name: Casting Calls: 1