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Dodie Heath, who has died aged 96, was an actress who arrived in Hollywood in the 1950s by way of Broadway, where she sang in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the musical about immigrants in New York; on the opposite coast she went on to appear in such acclaimed films as Brigadoon and The Diary of Anne Frank.

In The Diary of Anne Frank, she played Miep Gies, the brave employee of Anne’s father Otto who helped to hide the Frank family