Dame Gracie Fields

Your answer: English-Italian singer; stage, film & TV actress; comedienne; 'Sally' & 'Stage Door Canteen'

Dame Gracie Fields lived in Capri. That does NOT make her Italian. She was invested as Dame of the British Empire only a short time before her death. Had she been Italian, that would never have happened.

She was also an Italian citizen, by virtue of her marriage, and was stripped of her British citizenship during WWII because of her Italian status. I imagine that the British citizenship was reinstated prior to her becoming a Dame, but I think she remained a dual national.

Sue

You can’t have dual citizenship if you’re a British subject or a British protected person unless you’re a British subject from the Republic of Ireland.

What lonely_lady said is incorrect. Until the British Nationality Act of 1948, anyone born in the UK was a British subject, which has a slightly different connotation to being a citizen. However, that Act made a distinction between subjects and citizens and anyone born before it took effect in 1949 automatically became a citizen. All those people had the right to live in the UK and to come and go as they pleased (I'm assuming that people designated as traitors in the war might have lost some rights to travel), and they were always able to hold citizenship in other countries as well. That would have applied to Gracie Fields. She was not stripped of her citizenship and she was able to have Italian citizenship as well. Her problem was one to which women were subjected (and still are in many places) - if a British woman married a jolly foreigner, her husband did not have the right to become a British subject. So Gracie's husband had no right of entry here other than as a visitor and after Italy declared war, if he had arrived he would have been interned as an enemy alien. Therefore, he and Gracie went to the USA and she toured from there, entertaining the troops and raising money for the war effort. And then they stayed in Italy, on Capri. There was a degree of public hostility towards her (well, not hostility perhaps but frostiness) because she had had a better life in the USA than she would have had she stayed - no Blitz for her, for example, but Californian hotels and luxury. So after the war, she and her husband stayed in Capri and she visited the UK rather than come back as a resident - but she was a citizen and free to do what she liked.

The nationality laws have changed a number of times since 1948 to reflect immigration policy changes resulting from changes in the Empire. There are several ways of being British now, of being a subject and/or a citizen. What lonely-lady quoted referred to the status of subjects who have had to qualify to live here in some way; they don't all qualify for dual nationality. But that didn't apply to Gracie.

Maurice Chevalier

Your answer: Belgian-French singer; film actor; 'Love in the Afternoon' & 'Gigi'

Although he did have Belgian ancestry, both of his parents were French. He was probably the most famous Frenchman when I was growing up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:French_people_of_Belgian_descent

Russian Kazakhstani Olympic & World Champion weightlifter

Answer: Ilya Ilin

With the second one, just need to point out Russian & Kazakhstani I think. It's worded weird is all.

He's no longer an Olympic champion as both his medals were taken away because of failed drugs tests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Ilyin