This eight-part biographical drama from the BBC starred Carolyn Pickles as the Dublin orphan Margaret Kelly who was raised in Liverpool and – as “Miss Bluebell” – started her dancing career with a travelling variety show called The Hot Jocks, founded the dancing troupe The Bluebell Girls in Paris in 1932, and went on to put the kick in the lineup at the Folies Bergère.
In Paris, Bluebell met and married young Romanian pianist Marcel Leibovici (Philip Sayer) who was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany.
During World War II, she hid him in her Paris flat for more than two years, running ever-greater risks as both the French police and the Gestapo searched for him.
There were lots of girls dancing and wearing enough feathers to clothe several ostriches and a whole flock of poultry. The dance routines were filmed in the Civic Theatre in Halifax, Yorkshire.
Margaret “Miss Bluebell” Kelly
Carolyn Pickles Helen
Annie Lambert Marcel Leibovici
Philip Sayer Paul Derval
Michael Harbour Aunt Mary
Carmel McSharry Lucy
Miranda Coe Paulette
Susan Bovell Bobby
Sarah Dyall Kurt Burnitz
Peter Machin Alfred Jackson
Ian Thompson Tess
Gillian Winn Guy
Anthony Herrick Jeanne
Caryl Casson Abu
Claud Paul Henry Mimette
Cherida Langford Simone
Beryl Nesbitt Maurice Chevalier
Peter Reeves Mistinguett
Thelma Ruby
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