Actresses Collection (page 11)

Vesta Tilley as a messenger boy
Miss Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, later Lady de Frece, music hall and variety entertainer best known for her male impersonations

Vesta Tilley as a policeman
Miss Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles and later Lady de Frece, music hall entertainer best known for her male impersonations, pictured dressed up as a police officer. Date: 1890

Vesta Tilley and her husband, Walter de Frece
Miss Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), music hall entertainer best known for her male impersonations, , pictured on her honeymoon with her husband, Walter de Frece. Date: 1890

Vesta Tilley as Dick Whittington
Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, later Lady de Frece, music hall actress whose speciality was male impersonations

Vesta Tilley as Algy, the Piccadilly Johnny
Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, later Lady de Frece, music hall actress whose speciality was male impersonations

Vesta Tilley as a child in her first theatre appearance
Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, later Lady de Frece, music hall actress whose speciality was male impersonations

Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, later Lady de Frece, music hall actress whose speciality was male impersonations

Gaby Deslys (1881-1920), French actress, singer and dancer, pictured wearing a costume designed by the artist Drian and realised by the fashion couturier Paquin for the new revue

Gaby Deslys & her role in the Portuguese revolution
Portrait of French actress and singer, Gaby Deslys (1881-1920), pictured in The Bystander wearing a particularly frivolous stage outfit

Betty Blythe (1893 1972), American actress. 1926

Florence Mills (1896 -1927), born Florence Winfrey, American cabaret singer, dancer and comedienne. Appearing in " Blackbirds" at the London Pavilion. 1926

Tatler cover - Winifred Barnes
Front cover of The Tatler magazine, featuring the popular stage actress, Winifred Barnes (1892-1935), appearing at the time as the heroine in an Albert de Courville production, Soldier Boy

Teddie Gerard by Dolly Tree
The popular revue and musical-comedy actress, Teddie Gerard as depicted by Dolly Tree. Date: 1918

Billie Carleton in Fair and Warmer
Billie Carleton (4 September 1896 28 November 1918), an English musical comedy actress during the First World War. She began her professional stage career at age 15

Alice Delysia
French actress and singer, Alice Delysia (1889-1979), born Alice Henriette Lapize, , as pictured in a pencil portrait by Lieutenant W. B

Tatler cover - Violet Loraine
Front cover of The Tatler magazine featuring a portrait of actress and singer, Violet Loraine (1886-1956), star of the Bing Boys are Here, one of the most popular stage shows of the Great War period

Marie Lohr - a wartime actress-manageress, WW1
Marie Lohr, Australian actress (1890-1975) pictured in The Tatler at the time she had taken on the role of manager at the Globe Theatre in London where she was staging a play by W. Somerset Maugham

Ivy Duke, starring in Maid of the Mountains
Ivy Duke (1896-1937), British actress, pictured in The Tatler at the time she was appearing in the popular wartime theatre show, Maid of the Mountains at Dalys Theatre. Date: 1918

Countess Poulett, formerly the actress Sylvia Storey (1889-1947) remembered as a Gibson Girl and for her role of Lady Hamilton in, The Gay Gordons. Married the 7th Earl Poulett in 1908

Tatler cover - Laurette Taylor reading The Tatler
Front cover of The Tatler magazine featuring Miss Laurette Taylor (1883-1946) American actress born Loretta Helen Clooney

Gina Palerme
A seductive looking Gina Palerme, Anglo-French actress and music hall artiste, pictured in The Tatler at the time she had been engaged by theatrical impresario

Unity More in Shell Out, WW1 entertainment
Unity More (1894-1981), Actress, dancer and singer. Pictured as Little Miss Lancashire in the successful wartime theatrical revue, Shell Out at the Comedy Theatre. Date: 1915

Tatler cover - Lily Elsie
Front cover of The Tatler featuring Mrs Ian Bullough, aka the actress Lily Elsie, who was making a temporary reappearance on stage in 1915 starring opposite Sir Herbert Tree in a light hearted comedy

Miss Dorothy Ward & son with teddy in khaki
Miss Dorothy Ward, actress, pictured in The Tatler at the time she was playing the lead part in Light Blues which ran at the Princes Theatre, Manchester and later at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London

Miss Wish Wynne
Wish Wynne (1882-1931), actress, pictured at the time she was replacing Elsie Janis in the opoular revue at the Palace Theatre, The Passing Show. Date: 1915

The Marchioness of Headfort and her children
The Marchioness of Headfort, formerly known to playgoers as Miss Rose (Rosie) Boote of the Gaiety Theatre, London. She married the Marquess in April 1901, and her son became the Earl of Bective

Billie Carleton & Malvina Longfellow
A double page spread of photographs profiling Billie Carleton, (4 September 1896 28 November 1918), English musical comedy actress during the First World War

Billie Carleton & Dennis Eadie in Freedom of the Seas, 1918
Billie Carleton (4 September 1896 28 November 1918) was an English musical comedy actress during the First World War. She began her professional stage career at age 15

Miss Unity More
Unity More (1894-1981), Actress, dancer and singer. Pictured at the time she was playing the role of Little Miss Lancashire in the successful wartime theatrical revue

Violet Loraine (1886-1956), actress and singer, star of numerous West End musicals and revues during the First World War including Push and Go and The Bing Boys are Here. Date: 1915

Eileen Molyneux as Eve from The Tatler on film
Eileen Molyneux (1893-1962), actress, pictured in 1918, in character, when she had been chosen to star in a series of twelve silent comedy films, called The Adventures of Eve

Allies of the Great War at the Alhambra, WW1
Actresses in costume representing, from left to right, Miss M Thorp as Russia, Miss Woodger as Belgium, Miss Dick as Britain (Britannia)

Regine Flory in The Passing Show
Regine Flory (1894-1926), French actress and singer, pictured in an exquisite costume as the La Marchande de Masques in The Passing Show

Eileen Molyneux in Not Likely
The actress Eileen Molyneux pictured in a leg-revealing stage costume for the show, Not Likely, staged in July 1914. The outfit is suggested as ideal weather the country was experiencing at the time

Phyllis Monkman in Not Likely
The actress, Phyllis Monkman (1892-1976), actress, dancer and singer, pictured in an unusual costume for her role in " Not Likely." The Sketch suggests the Thorough Ventilation costume to

Miss Margot Park, actress and war worker
Miss Margot Park, an actress, who, according to The Sketch, had left the stage during the war to work at the Ministry of Munitions. Whether this was in a factory or office setting is unclear

Sketch cover, Emily Drange at Britannia
Front cover of The Sketch magazine featuring a photograph of American actress, Emily Drange in costume as Britannia. She was part of a patriotic tableau staged in New York

Sketch cover, Miss Billie Carleton
Front cover of The Sketch featuring a portrait of Billie Carleton English musical comedy actress during the First World War

Edmee Dormeuil by William Barribal
Edmee Dormeuil, French actress and star of The Better Ole, the musical play based on the cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander

Beatrice Lillie as Charlie Chaplin, 1918
Beatrice Lillie (1894 - 1989) British actress, later Lady Peel after she married Robert ( Bobbie ) Peel, who succeeded to his fathers baronetcy in 1925

Laurette Taylor
Miss Laurette Taylor (1883-1946) American actress born Loretta Helen Clooney, pictured at the time she was appearing in New York in Out There

Lily Elsie and dog
Lily Elsie (1886 - 1962) popular theatre actress and singer an star of The Merry Widow. Born Elsie Cotton in Yorkshire, Lily Elsie became the most popular actress on the London stage

Tatler cover - Yvonne Fitzroy, WW1
Yvonne FitzRoy (1891-1971), actress and society figure on the front cover of The Tatler magazine in 1917. She was a theatre actress before the First World War

Aileen D Orme in Chu Chin Chow, WW1
Aileen D Orme, actress and soprano singer, pictured in costume in the hugely popular wartime show, Chu Chin Chow, in which she played the role of Alcolom and sang the song, Any Times Kissing Time

Elsie Janis (March 16, 1889 February 26, 1956), American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter. Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as " the sweetheart of

Tatler cover - Alice Delysia
Front cover of The Tatler magazine featuring two photographs of the French actress and singer, Alice Delysia (1889-1979), born Alice Henriette Lapize, at the time she was appearing in As You Were

Eileen Molyneux (1893-1962), actress, pictured in 1918, when she had been chosen to star in a series of twelve silent comedy films, called The Adventures of Eve

Mr and Mrs Bobbie Peel (Beatrice Lillie)
Beatrice Lillie (1894 - 1989) British actress, aka Lady Peel together with her husband Robert Peel, who later succeeded to his fathers baronetcy in 1925. Date: 1921

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