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Jeanne Mitchell, professionally known as Jeanne Little, was an Australian entertainer, comedienne and television personality who won the Gold Logie award in 1977. Her first success on television was on The Mike Walsh Show which earned her the Gold Logie plus two other Logies. Other television of appearances include Midday with Ray Martin and GMA with Bert Newton. She became well known for her flamboyant outfits, over-the-top personality and her trademark catch phrase said in a drawling speech of "Oh Dahling".

Biography
Little was born in Sydney, Australia. She made her television debut on Network Ten's The Mike Walsh Show in September 1974. As part of The Mike Walsh Show team again, Little wowed and won audiences for the next 15 years. She was a guest on the Midday with Ray Martin show, In 1976, Little won a Gold Logie for most popular television personality, and subsequently won two other Logies for her work on the Mike Walsh Show. Before the 2008 Logie Awards, Little reflected on what her Gold Logie win in 1976 meant to her, "Well daaahling, I was in total shock. Absolute shock, I thought, 'What me? Winning a Gold Logie? For heaven's sake this is ridiculous, there's been a mistake.'" Her stage career took off with ''Jerry's Girls,'' in which American director John Frost teamed Little with well known entertainers Marcia Hines, Debra Byrne and Judi Connelli. In the late 1990s, through to the mid-2000s, Little appeared on the panel discussion show Beauty and the Beast, with "beast" Stan Zemanek. In August 2014, family members advised that Little's illness had advanced to the stage that she "no longer knows where she is or what's going on around her". ==Personal life==
Personal life
Little married interior decorator Barry Little in 1971. Their daughter Katie Little is a writer, comedienne, music producer and singer. Katie is patron of the Jeanne Little Alzheimer's Research Fund, which has been set up in her mother's honour to raise funds for ongoing research into the disease. In 2019 Katie released a black humour memoir titled Catch a Falling Star - A Story About Growing Up With Jeanne Little. She was diagnosed with rapid-onset Alzheimer's disease in 2009, and was cared for in a Sydney nursing home, where her husband Barry (1929–2019) also resided. Little died on 7 November 2020 at the age of 82. ==Honours==
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