Bebe Scott

Scott was born in Sydney, New South Wales. She attended Brighton College in Manly where she a swimmer in the all schools swimming carnival and won several medals. Her father was a manufacturing painter, while her half-brother George Wallace was a comedian who encouraged her to pursue stage-acting. When influenza broke out, Scott volunteered for hospital work. [1]

Scott toured with actors Muriel Starr and Harvey Adams (1928-29) before securing work with her half-brother George Wallace and his revue company (1929-30). It was around this time that her fiancé Kyrle McAllister died in a car crash.

Her radio career with the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) began in 1932 and continued into the late-1950s. At one point of time, Scott was the only actress under contract to the ABC in Queensland. She was best known for her child impersonations.[2]

During that time she co-starred in the children’s programme, The Cap and Bebe Show for 4QG (1933-38) with her husband, British stage, radio and film actor George Randall,[3] and later starred as the Troublesome Child in Out of the Bag.[4] She later married Leonard Hollyer.[5] From the mid-1940s Scott largely worked as a dramatic actress, both for ABC Radio and on stage. In 1957 she became the host of 3AR’s Where Old Friends Meet.[6]

• I'm Very Very Australian / Traffic Lights (1942)
• I'm Such A Bloomin' Nuisance In The Black-Out / It All Happened In The Brown-Out (1942)
• Lost My Dog / We've Got A New Baby At Our House (1942)[7]