A white card signed by English actress Diana Coupland, best remembered for her role as Jean Abbott in the TV sitcom Bless This House, which she played from 1971 to 1976. She had originally wanted to be a ballet dancer, but she could not fulfill this ambition due to a horse-riding accident. Barney Colehan, a BBC producer, heard Coupland sing and invited her onto one of his radio shows. By the time she reached 14, she was singing full time at the Mecca Locarno in Leeds, and the following year, moved to London with her parents, where she became a resident singer at Mecca's Tottenham Court Road ballroom. During the 1940s and 1950s, she became a leading singer of the day, singing at The Dorchester and The Savoy. Coupland also dubbed the singing voices of actresses who could not sing, namely Lana Turner in Betrayed and most famously in the James Bond film Dr. No, where she dubbed the singing voice of Ursula Andress when singing on the beach "Under the mango tree". She gave up professional singing and made her television debut in the early 1960s, and early appearances included Dixon of Dock Green, The Wednesday Play, Softly, Softly and the second episode of Z-Cars in January 1962. However, after playing a mother in Please Sir! and the Siberian wife in Mel Brooks's 1970 film The Twelve Chairs, Coupland got her big break in 1971 when she achieved television fame as Jean Abbott, the long-suffering wife of Sid James's character, in Bless This House.