Joan Miller

Joan Miller was a Canadian actress who moved from Nelson, British Columbia, to London in 1931 to build an acting career. She became the face of Picture Page, the BBC television magazine program that started in 1936 from Alexandra Palace, where she played a switchboard operator who introduced guests to viewers; she won the role partly because she had trained switchboard operators in Vancouver. Beyond that show, she appeared in BBC plays and television movies, including a 1937 televised production of Once in a Lifetime as May and a comedy sketch in which she played Cleopatra. Miller also worked in theater and radio. In 1934 she received the Bessborough Trophy for Best Canadian Actress. Her Picture Page role lasted 106 episodes over 34 months and ended when the BBC television service stopped broadcasting at the start of the Second World War.