Comedienne Collection

Front of the Sketch featuring Marie Lloyd
Marie Lloyd, born Matilda Alice Victoria Wood (1870 - 1922), British music hall singer, entertainer and comedienne. A global superstar in her day commanding the highest salary of any entertainer

Jennie Benson music hall comedienne and mimic
Jennie Benson comedienne and mimic. Known for her character studies. Dressed as a soldier during the First World War in greatcoat and cap, smoking a cigarette. Signed card. Date: circa 1917

Joyce Grenfell
Joyce Irene Grenfell, OBE (n饠 Phipps; 10 February 1910 30 November 1979), British comedienne, actress and, in her time, one of the countrys best loved entertainers

Vesta Victoria music hall comic singer 1873-1951
Vesta Victoria (Victoria Lawrence) music hall singer and character comedienne. Born in Leeds but affected a cockney stage persona. Demure pose with hands in fur muff

May Lilian Levey music hall male impersonator
May Lilian Levey male impersonator, dancer, pantomime principal boy. Here dressed in top hat and tails with cane. Called herself the ?premier male character comedienne?

Madeline Rossiter actress, musician and manager
Madeline Rossiter dressed in male attire as Algy. She worked in revue, summer seasons, musical comedy and pantomime. Described as a comedienne, impressioniste and musician

Marie Lloyd music hall singer and comedienne 1870-1922
Marie Lloyd (Matilda Alice Wood) music hall singer and comedienne with a reputation for sauciness. In suggestive pose, hands on hips and showing petticoats

Fanny Fields music hall comedienne 1881-1961
?Happy? Fanny Fields music hall comedienne dressed in character as naive Gretchen in Dutch costume. Clog dancing part of the act. Date: circa 1905

Gertie Rex music hall male impersonator
Gertie Rex male impersonator billed as Scotland?s greatest comedienne. In character as a Scottish soldier with kilt and sporran. Signed card. Date: circa 1916

Gracie Fields, English actress and singer. Date: 1934

Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-born comic actress. Date: 1934

Irene Vanbrugh
Date: 1899

May Edney music hall comedienne and dancer moving on in the 1920s to revue and soubrette parts. Wearing full length white dress in wedding dress style with matching headdress

Miss Ethel Warwick - British Stage Actress
Ethel Maud Warwick (1880-1951) - born in Hendon, Middlesex, England, she was married to actor Edmund Waller. In addition to being a star of musical comedies, Miss Warwick was an accomplished painter

Marie Lloyd
A poster for the Empire Edmonton, advertising Marie Lloyds last performance, dated 2nd October 1922. Also billed is Dan Harlow, and Irene Magley and Monty Woolf. Date: 2nd October 1922

Flo Hastings and Wee Georgie Wood
Late 19th/early 20th century music hall performers Flo Hastings (1880-?) and Wee Georgie Wood (1894-1979), attending a screening of rare clips of early music hall acts at the National Film Theatre in

Florence Mills in Black Birds
Florence Mills, born Florence Winfrey (1896 - 1927), American cabaret star, singer, dancer and comedienne. Pictured centre stage with Miss Tillie Meadows

Ada Rehan (1857 - 1916), Irish born American actress, one of the great comediennes of her day, represented the " personality" style of acting in the nineteenth century

Miss Claire Waldoff
A page from The Bystander, celebrating Claire Waldoff (1884-1957), comedienne and German cabaret singer, proclaimed as the Queen of Berlins Night-Life. 1911

Maisie Gay, The Gay Victorian"
Comic actress Maisie Gay (1878-1945) depicted on the front cover of The Sketch in a Victorian-style dress. 1928

A Little Entertainment, by Sewell Collins (1876-1934), depicting Margaret Moffat (1883-1942), actress and comedienne, and Nathaniel Davis Ayer (1887-1952), composer, pianist

Miss Rose Cambry, comedienne and singer who appeared at the Islington Empire, among other places. Date: circa 1910

Carole Lombard (1908 - 1942), American film actress and comedienne

Marie Lloyd in the Tatler - The Darling of the Gods
Photograph from the Tatler of 20th October 1909 of Marie Lloyd, singer, comedienne and music-hall star riding in an open topped carriage, smiling broadly

Gracie Fields, English singer and actress
Gracie Fields (1898-1979), English singer and actress. Date: circa 1930s

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

Marie Lloyd, entertainer, and her 20 hp Austin car
Marie Lloyd, born Matilda Alice Victoria Wood (1870-1922), British music hall singer, entertainer and comedienne, seen here getting into her 20 hp Austin car. Date: 1914

May Hotely (18721954) - early silent screen comedienne, who starred in films for Lubin, produced by her husband Arthur Hotaling out of Jacksonville, Florida. Appeared in films until the late 1920 s

Gabrielle Rejane - French actress
Gabrielle Rejane (Gabrielle-Charlotte Reju) (18561920) - French actress. Date: 1905

Tatler front cover, Amanda Barrie 1964
Front cover of The Tatler featuring Amanda Barrie, English actress (born 1935) and star of such films as Carry on Cleo and for playing the character Alma Sedgewick in Coronation Street

Marie Lloyd on cover of Sporting & Dramatic News
Marie Lloyd, born Matilda Alice Victoria Wood (1870 - 1922), British music hall singer, entertainer and comedienne. A global superstar in her day commanding the highest salary of any entertainer

Marie Lloyd marrying Alec Hurley
Marie Lloyd, born Matilda Alice Victoria Wood (1870 - 1922), British music hall singer, entertainer and comedienne pictured at her wedding to her second husband

Bird on Nellies Hat
A fashionable hat of the period trimmed with a stuffed bird worn by May Ward - the dainty little comedienne. Date: 1906

Louise Fazenda / Postcard
LOUISE FAZENDA American actress and comedienne of silent films Date: 1895 - 1962

Vesta Victoria / Variety
VESTA VICTORIA Music hall comedienne and singer, singing Its all right in the summer-time

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