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Belinda Lee: actor who died in 1961 car crash commemorated in Devon
Star who led a sometimes scandalous life celebrated with blue plaque in home town of Budleigh Salterton
This weekend Belinda Lee, who died in a car crash in California in 1961 aged 25, is being celebrated in her home town, the rather less glitzy Devon seaside resort of Budleigh Salterton. Photograph: Michael DownesLee, the daughter of a hotel owner and florist, left the town – dismissed in a Noël Coward play as a place of potted palms with a damp golf course – in search of fame and fortune. On Saturday, the date of her birth, film academics, local museum leaders and Budleigh Salterton residents who remember “Billie” as she was known in the town will come together to unveil a blue plaque in her memory near where she lived.
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