Aimi MacDonald

Aimi MacDonald (born 27 February 1942) is a Scottish actress and dancer. She is best known for her role as "The Lovely" Aimi MacDonald in the television sketch comedy show At Last the 1948 Show (Rediffusion, 1967). Background and early career Aimi MacDonald's Scottish father was a doctor. Her mother was English. She is the youngest of three daughters. MacDonald went to ballet school and entered showbusiness at 14. She was a dancer, working during her teens in Great Britain and the United States. While performing with a troupe in Las Vegas, she met Elvis Presley at the Silver Slipper casino, remarking years later that he would "jam with the rest of them" and on his ability as a jazz guitarist. MacDonald married an American musician at 17 and they had a daughter named Lisa. The marriage did not last and MacDonald returned to Great Britain, appearing during the 1960s in musicals in London's West End and in cabaret. She played in the first London production of the musical The Boys from Syracuse (Jewel Courtesan) in 1963 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, alongside Bob Monkhouse and Ronnie Corbett. She recalled that she had to keep working to support herself and her daughter and that this was sometimes a struggle.