Rae Collett

Born Rachel Ann Evelyn (Rae was an acronym) Collet in India ca. 1930, she came to the United States with her parents, who were Scottish, in 1940, to escape the Hitler Blitzkrieg. She underwent an appendectomy in a Boston hospital and was stricken with pneumonia, recuperating in Middlebury, Connecticut, at the home of the Rev. and Mrs. William H. McCance, old friends of her parents whom they met in India in the 1920s. Her father, Capt. Thomas Collet, served with the British Intelligence service. She studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and was in "Knights Without Armour" (1937); "Man Who Made Miracles;" and "Dolly's Lullaby." Her sisters were Angela (born ca. 1927) and Patricia (born ca. 1933). Source: "Little British Film Star Visitor Here," The Waterbury Republican (Waterbury, Connecticut, USA), February, 1941; archives of the Middlebury (Connecticut) Historical Society, 4 Library Road, P.O. Box 104, Middlebury, CT USA 06762.