- Singer in light comedy and operetta
- Mother of Rory Campbell.
- Was briefly engaged to Peter Sellers.
- In 1969, she starred in the title role of The Merry Widow on tour and then at the Cambridge Theatre in London.
- Webb played in pantomime, including the role of Dick Whittington in 1950, and starred as Cinderella opposite the stars of The Goon Show in 1951 on The Light Programme.
- She was also featured in 1953 in the Royal Command Performance given in the presence of the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth.
- Webb toured the British provinces in Jubilee Girl (1956), a troubled production that she, the director, the choreographer and others abandoned before it arrived in London.
- She married Colonel Guy Campbell, the heir to a baronetcy, and left the stage in the late 1950s.
- She and her husband moved to Marbella, Spain, where they lived for a few years in the 1970s before returning to England and living in Cheltenham.
- In 2004, a CD of her songs, entitled My Lovely Day With Lizbeth Webb - The Champagne Soprano, was issued. The following year, another CD was released called Lizbeth Webb: With a Song In My Heart.
- In addition to entertaining the Allied troops, she took part in propaganda broadcasts of German light music, often in German, working with Mischa Spoliansky, and sketches with upbeat tales of life in Britain. This placed her on potential Nazi death lists.
- Known as "the champagne soprano", she is remembered partly for originating the song "This Is My Lovely Day".
- Webb continued to entertain the troops between West End engagements, in Austria after the war, in Korea in 1953 (while under enemy attack) and in Cyprus and Libya in 1956, where she met her second husband, who was head of the British military force in Tripoli.
- She began her career as a teenage band vocalist and on BBC radio under the name Betty Webb, singing to the troops during World War II and freelancing with British bands, often for Jack Payne, who discovered her, and also for Albert Sandler, Henry Hall, Louis Levy and Geraldo. She generally performed two or three live broadcasts daily during the height of the German air-raids.
- After performing as a dance band vocalist and entertaining British troops during World War II, Webb pursued a career in West End musicals, becoming known for her vivaciousness in playing such roles as Lucy Willow in Bless the Bride, Linda in Ivor Novello's Gay's the Word and Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls.
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