b. 23 February 1926, the Bronx, New York City, New York, USA, d. 30 September 2006, Los Angeles, California, USA. After school, Bigley studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York and made her Broadway debut in 1946 in the chorus of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Oklahoma! It was with this show that she travelled to London in 1947 and before the show closed she was playing the leading role of Laurey Williams. This led directly to the role of Sarah Brown in Guys And Dolls on Broadway. Bigley and the show were huge successes and she won a Tony Award in 1951 for ...