Grazina Frame

Grazina Frame (born Lydia Anna Grazina Obrycha, 6 November 1941, Fylde, Lancashire, England) is an English singer and actress.

Grazina Frame was born as Lydia Anna Grazina Obrycha to Zena Frame (mother) and Karol Jan Obrycki (father). She attended the Aida Foster Drama School and began her career as Grazina Obrycki.

She first appeared on television as a servant girl in A Time to be Born, a Christmas play, for BBC Television (24 December 1953).

On television, she appeared as entertainer Gloria Marsh in the 19 October 1969 episode That’s How Murder Snowballs of My Partner the Ghost, and in series Up Pompeii! (1970), The Fenn Street Gang (1971), Doctor in Charge (1972) and The Morecambe and Wise Show as a regular from 1971 to 1974, playing supporting roles to the legendary comedians. Her latest screen appearance was in the 1996 television movie Cuts.

She appeared as Mavis, a Victorian Mermaid, in Follow That Girl, 1959–1960, at Vaudeville Theatre, London.

She appeared as Carol Blitztein, in Blitz!, the 1962 West End musical by Lionel Bart.

She appeared in the 1986 London production of Cabaret with Wayne Sleep, Kelly Hunter, Peter Land, and Rodney Cottam.

She recorded a series of singles as Grazina for HMV 1962-1964, and sang with Sir Cliff Richard on several 1960s songs, as a result of having over-dubbed both Carole Gray in film The Young Ones and Lauri Peters in Summer Holiday.

Her film appearances include The Painted Smile (1962), What a Crazy World (1963), The Bargee (1964), Every Day's a Holiday (1965) and The Alphabet Murders (1965).

She was married to songwriter Mitch Murray until 1980, with daughters Mazz and Gina, who would form the girl group Woman. Grazina remarried to writer-producer Rob Dallas. She was a friend of the late Bob Monkhouse.

As Grazina

• A: "Lover Please Believe Me" / B: "So What"
• A: "Another Like You" / B: "Don't Be Shy"
• A: "Be My Baby" / B: "I Ain't Gonna Knock On Your Door"
• A: "Stay Awhile" / B: "Let Me Go Lover"

With Cliff Richard

• "Nothing's Impossible" (Cliff Richard and Grazina Frame, A.B.S Orchestra) The Young Ones
• "No One For Me" (Grazina Frame, A.B.S Orchestra) The Young Ones

• List of The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968–1977) episodes
• Up Pompeii!
• That's How Murder Snowballs