On which island did Gracie Fields die in 1979?
Gracie Fields Gracie Fields Dame Gracie Fields, (born Grace Stansfield; 9 January 189827 September 1979) was an English actress, singer and comedienne and star of both cinema and music hall. She spent the later part of her life on the isle of Capri, Italy. Fields was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for "services to entertainment" in 1938, and in 1979, seven months before her death, she was invested a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II. Fields was born Grace Stansfield, over a fish and chip shop owned by her grandmother, Sarah Bamford, in Molesworth Street, Rochdale, Lancashire.
Gracie Fields 156, was named in her honour. Fields was granted the Freedom of Rochdale. The local theatre in Rochdale, the Gracie Fields Theatre, was opened by her in 1978. In September 2016, a statue of Fields was unveiled outside Rochdale Town Hall which is the first statue of a woman to be erected for over a century in Greater Manchester. For a number of years, British film exhibitors voted her among the top ten stars in Britain at the box office via an annual poll in the "Motion Picture Herald". Gracie Fields Dame Gracie Fields, (born Grace Stansfield; 9 January 189827