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Ada Beth Lee

Overview

  • Born
    November 8, 1917 · Newton, Iowa, USA
  • Died
    December 14, 1991 · Van Nuys, California, USA (cancer)

Biography

  • Ada Beth Lee was born on November 8, 1917 in Newton, Iowa, USA. She was an actress. She was married to Bill Lee. She died on December 14, 1991 in Van Nuys, California, USA.

Family

  • Spouse
      Bill Lee
  • Children
      Diana Lee

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  • Ada Beth Lee appeared as Sister Catherine in the 1965 film "The Sound of Music" and was a free-lance studio singer for 35 years.
  • She received a graduate scholarship to the American Conservatory in Chicago and began a professional singing career at WGN radio station, also in Chicago.
  • Ada Beth Lee graduated from Drake University in Des Moines with a double major in voice and piano.
  • In 1975, she co-founded with her husband Bill Lee "the Valley Master Chorale", an all-volunteer community chorus of 150 voices. She served as its principal fund-raiser for 16 years.
  • After coming to California in 1945, she sang with the Norman Luboff Choir and the Johnny Mann Singers in Hollywood.

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