Anne Heywood

While "Violet Pretty" may have been an acceptable moniker in the silent-movie days, it sounded too showbizzy to be true in the early 1950s: that's why English beauty-contest winner Violet Pretty becam...
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BirthPlace
12/10/1932
Handsworth, England
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