Rosemary Margan (12 May 1937 – 5 December 2017) was an Australian television and radio personality. She won

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for best Victorian Female Personality in 1969 and 1970.

Biography

Margan became well known for working with both

Graham Kennedy Graham Cyril Kennedy AO (15 February 1934 – 25 May 2005) was an Australian entertainer, comedian and variety performer, as well as a personality and star of radio, theatre, television and film. He often performed in the style of vaudevilli ...

and

Bert Newton Albert Watson Newton (23 July 1938 – 30 October 2021) was an Australian media personality. He was a Logie Hall of Fame inductee, quadruple Gold Logie award-winning entertainer and radio, theatre and television personality and presenter. Newt ...

, she was the sister-in-law of radio presenter Neil Mitchell and regularly presented commercials on his morning program. (subscription required) A soft and clear speaking voice with precise, unaccented diction were her trademarks in both radio and television presentations. She also delivered voiceovers in cinema slide advertisements for the

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Agency. While delivering a live commercial in March 1975, she was being teased by Kennedy as usual with his bird calls, when he uttered the infamous "crow-call" taken for an expletive. Among her many TV appearances over a long and successful career, she had a brief but memorable cameo in the comedy/satire current affairs show

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(Series 1, Episode 13, "This Night of Night") where she played herself as a celebrity guest at the Logie Awards, who did not know star presenter Mike Moore's name and merely called him "mate". She was the mother of actress

Cathy Godbold Catherine Malia Godbold (23 September 1974 – 4 May 2018) was an Australian actress. She was best known for her role as Deborah Hale Regnery on ''The Saddle Club'' and as Meg Bowman in ''Home and Away''. Following the cancellation of '' Newl ...

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