Real name: Helen Dorothy (Nell) Malmgron

Australian singer, dancer, soubrette, radio actor (b. Sydney 1909 - d. 1951)

Nell Malmgron determined to go on the stage from childhood and after studying classical dancing under Frances Scully performed her own act at the Sydney Tivoli at age 16. She later joined Jim Gerald’s Revue Company as a soubrette and by 1929, as Nell Stirling, was a member of the acting ensemble. An engagement with George Wallace followed in 1930, and by 1931 she was appearing on stage and in radio sketches with George Edwards. In December 1932 she and Edwards, along with his daughter Chandra Parks, starred in "The Ghost Train", which Edwards produced for Sydney radio station 2UE. Its success led to the founding of the George Edwards Players, and Stirling went on to play almost every lead female role in the company’s radio series for more than a decade. Edwards and Stirling married in 1934. Although the couple became extremely wealthy through their radio productions they lost much of their money in the mid-1940s when his racing stable and her nightclub both failed. Edwards gambling and drinking led to their divorced in 1948. Stirling soon afterwards married their accountant, Alexander Atwill.