Henrietta Valor ( Embick; April 28, 1935 – November 23, 2007) was an actress and singer who starred on Broadway in Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Half a Sixpence, Applause, and Annie. Life Henrietta Embick was born in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania on April 28, 1935. She earned her bachelor's degree in music and acting at Northwestern University in 1957. Additionally, she studied opera at the Music Academy of the West, which is located in Santa Barbara, California, with Lotte Lehmann in the late 1950s. She moved to Los Angeles in 1990. Valor died of complications from Alzheimer's disease on November 23, 2007. Off-Broadway/touring Off-Broadway, she starred in Fashion, which she reprised twenty years later at the Pasadena Playhouse. She toured extensively for the USO in Europe, Africa, and the Far East including Viet Nam. Her regional theatre credits include: The Studio Arena Stage (Buffalo, NY), The Alliance Theatre (Atlanta), A.C.T. (Seattle), the Williamstown Theatre (Massachusetts), PAF Playhouse (Huntington, Long Island), Playwrights Horizons (New York City), the Boston Shakespeare Company, and three seasons with the acting company of The Guthrie Theatre (Minneapolis). She studied opera on scholarship with Lotte Lehmann in Santa Barbara and acting with Alvina Krause at Northwestern University where she received her Bachelor of Music degree. She was a runner-up in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions in New York City. Her last acting role was Miss Framer in Lettice and Lovage at the Pasadena Playhouse. Broadway Valor starred on Broadway in Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Half a Sixpence, Applause, and Annie. References External links Henrietta Valor Official Website 1935 births American musical theatre actresses American stage actresses Actresses from Pennsylvania Northwestern University alumni Deaths from dementia in California Deaths from Alzheimer's disease 2007 deaths 20th-century American singers 20th-century American women singers 21st-century American women