Joan Savage, who has died aged 89, was an actress, singer and comedienne who made brief appearances in Dad’s Army and Coronation Street; a perennial blonde who beamed sincerity, she was a mainstay of light entertainment and a survivor of the music-hall tradition, performing nostalgic wartime turns well into the 1990s.
Her full name was Marie-Josephe-Rose de Tascher de La Pagerie. But she is remembered simply as Josephine, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte and Empress of France.
In this piece from our Spring 1954 issue, the legendary critic Kenneth Tynan profiles Greta Garbo, the enigmatic, iconic face of silent and early sound cinema.