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Juliet Greene

July 24, 2008 23:00

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Born London, October 27, 1922.
Died London, June 5, 2008, aged 85.

The last and youngest of the wartime singing trio, the Greene Sisters, Juliet Greene took the stage name of Judy. Her singing partners were Gillian, who performed under the stage name Gertie, and Jeanette.
The girls were three of the five children of an East End couple, Rebecca and Jack Greene.

Jack, who worked in the leather trade, had a fine voice and tutored his daughters. Rebecca's father, Jacob Lazarus, was a founder member of the Machzikei Hadath synagogue, known as a bastion of East End Orthodoxy.

Their only son, Marcus, who died in 1983, became an accountant. Their youngest daughter, Sylvia, also musically gifted, arranged and composed music for her sisters.

The singing trio were discovered by Sidney Phillips, musical arranger for the bandleader, Ambrose. In 1939, they performed in a fundraising concert for Jewish refugees. In the Second World War they toured, appearing in Bradford, Liverpool and Brighton, and on London suburban stages, including the State Theatre, Kilburn, and the Trocadero, Elephant and Castle.