Polly Elwes

Polly Elwes, born Mary Freya Elwes (29 February 1928 – 15 July 1987) was an English television and radio broadcaster and stage actress. An alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, she joined the Windsor Theatre Royal repertory company as a stage actress and stage manager until she focused on television when offers of plays dried up. Elwes presented her first television programme on the BBC about those born on 29 February in 1956. She also performed announcements on television and was the first woman roving reporter for the early evening programme Tonight. Elwes was a panellist on the television panel game What's My Line?, the music and quiz show Juke Box Jury and the music quiz game Face the Music.