GISELE MACKENZIE
b. January 10, 1927 in Winnipeg, Manitoba
d. September 5, 2003 in Burbank, California
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Gisele MacKenzie started out in life as Marie Marguerite Louise Gisele LaFleche. Once known as "Canada's first lady of song," she was the daughter of a Winnipeg doctor and a musically-gifted mother. She was playing piano at two and went on to play violin and sing. In fact, her first public performance was on the violin when she gave a recital at the Royal Alexandra Hotel in Winnipeg when she was just 12 years old. MacKenzie later moved to Toronto to study at the Royal Conservatory of Music. She was entertaining troops during the Second World War when she met, and later married, the bandleader Robert Shuttleworth. They had a son and a daughter but the marriage didn't last. Later she remarried, but that marriage, to businessman Robert Klein also ended in divorce.
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Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
The Oval Portrait (1972)
TV Series - Cast:
Your Hit Parade (1953-1957)
The Gisele Mackenzie Show (1957-1958)
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