Annette Mills

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Annette Mills (1894 – 10 January 1955) was an English actress, dancer and broadcaster, and concert pianist.

She was born Edith Mabel Mills in Chelsea, London in 1894 and died from a heart attack in 1955, at the age of 61.

She is remembered for being the partner of the puppet "Muffin", in the successful BBC Television series Muffin the Mule between 1946 and 1955. She wrote the songs and the music, while puppeteer Ann Hogarth wrote the scripts.

Her younger brother Sir John Mills became a successful actor and her granddaughter is the actress Susie Blake. She was the Aunt of Hayley Mills.

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• Anne Pimlott Baker, "Mills, Annette (1894–1955)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 28 Oct 2006