Georgia Brown was a British singer and actress. Born Lillian Claire Laizer Getel Klot in the East End of London to Mark and Annie Kirschenbaum Klot, Jewish immigrants to the United Kingdom, she was dispatched to Wales during the Blitz to escape the bombings in London. A lover of jazz, she selected her professional name from the 1925 tune "Sweet Georgia Brown" by Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard and Kenneth Casey. Brown starred alongside Pamela Green in Bernard Delfont's Folies Bergeres at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London, but she first came to prominence as Lucy in the 1956 London revival of... The Threepenny Opera at the Royal Court Theatre, a role she repeated the following year when she joined the cast of the highly successful off-Broadway production. Three years later she received critical and public acclaim for her portrayal of Nancy, the role she created in Lionel Bart's musical Oliver! in the West End. She was thus the first singer to make popular the songs As long as he needs me and It's a fine life.
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| Birthdate: | October 21, 1933 |
| Birthplace: | East End of London |
| Date of death: | July 5, 1992 |
| Also known as: | Lillian Klot |