Joan Savage, variety star who appeared as Greta Garbo in Dad’s Army and in Coronation Street – obituary

• Joan Savage, who has died aged 89, was an actress, singer and comedienne who made brief appearances in Dad’s Army and Coronation Street; a perennial blonde who beamed sincerity, she was a mainstay of light entertainment and a survivor of the music-hall tradition, performing nostalgic wartime turns well into the 1990s.