Edwardian Actors collection

A small selection of early B&W postcards showing various well-known Victorian and Edwardian actors.

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Postcards

  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Vesta Tilley
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Mrs Brown PotterDN
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Isabelle Jay1
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Zena Dare2
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Nancy PriceDN
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Gladys Cooper1
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Tx4DN
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Vesta TilleySNPostcard franked Halifax 1905 - Pub: ? - Vesta Tilley Matilda Alice Powles, Lady de Frece (13 May 1864 – 16 September 1952) was an English music hall performer. She adopted the stage name Vesta Tilley and became one of the best-known male impersonators of her era. Her career lasted from 1869 until 1920. Starting in provincial theatres with her father as manager, she performed her first season in London in 1874. She typically performed as a dandy or fop, also playing other roles. She found additional success as a principal boy in pantomime.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-DBaird+HIrvingDNUnused postcard - "Dainty Novels” series - Dorothea Baird & Henry Irving Dorothea Baird (20 May 1875 – 24 September 1933) was an English stage and film actress. Her first stage appearance was with the Oxford University Dramatic Society in February 1894, when she played Iris in The Tempest. She was seen there by Lewis Carroll. On 26 May, he took her to London to see Ellen Terry performing, and then took her backstage to meet Ellen Terry. This inspired her to become a professional actress where she met her future husband, H. B. Irving, with whom she appeared in a number of plays. In 1913, she retired from the stage, due to a miscarriage, and involved herself in charitable causes, especially with infant welfare, and put her attention towards family at a London's health centre known as the St. Pancras School for Mothers, of which she was a board member for many years. In 1917, Baird used her theatre and film experience to create the film “Motherhood”, with the help of Percy Nash, to try to help improve the living habits of mothers and infants and also to create political demands for social improvement. Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905), christened John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility (supervision of sets, lighting, direction, casting, as well as playing the leading roles) for season after season at the West End's Lyceum Theatre, establishing himself and his company as representative of English classical theatre. In 1895 he became the first actor to be awarded a knighthood, indicating full acceptance into the higher circles of British society.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Henry IrvingUnused postcard - Pub: Rotary Photographic Series - Henry Irving Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905), christened John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility (supervision of sets, lighting, direction, casting, as well as playing the leading roles) for season after season at the West End's Lyceum Theatre, establishing himself and his company as representative of English classical theatre. In 1895 he became the first actor to be awarded a knighthood, indicating full acceptance into the higher circles of British society.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors RotarySG-Z+PDPostcard franked Weybridge - Pub: Rotary Photo - Photo of Zena & Phyllis Dare Zena Dare (born Florence Hariette Zena Dones; 4 February 1887 – 11 March 1975) was an English actress and singer who was famous for her performances in Edwardian musical comedy and other musical theatre and comedic plays in the first half of the 20th century. Phyllis Dare (born Phyllis Constance Haddie Dones; 15 August 1890 – 27 April 1975) was an English actress and singer famous for her performances in Edwardian musical comedy and other musical theatre in the first half of the 20th century.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Z+PDareUnused postcard - Pub: Rotary Photo Co No 2860C Zena Dare (born Florence Hariette Zena Dones; 4 February 1887 – 11 March 1975) was an English actress and singer who was famous for her performances in Edwardian musical comedy and other musical theatre and comedic plays in the first half of the 20th century. Phyllis Dare (born Phyllis Constance Haddie Dones; 15 August 1890 – 27 April 1975) was an English actress and singer famous for her performances in Edwardian musical comedy and other musical theatre in the first half of the 20th century.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Phyllis Dare2Unfranked postcard - Pub: Davidson Bros - Phyllis Dare Phyllis Dare (born Phyllis Constance Haddie Dones; 15 August 1890 – 27 April 1975) was an English actress and singer famous for her performances in Edwardian musical comedy and other musical theatre in the first half of the 20th century.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Phyllis DareUnused postcard - Pub: ? - Photo of Phyllis Dare Phyllis Dare (born Phyllis Constance Haddie Dones; 15 August 1890 – 27 April 1975) was an English actress and singer famous for her performances in Edwardian musical comedy and other musical theatre in the first half of the 20th century.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors 6165zdPostcard franked Hastings 1900 - Pub: Davidson Bros - Photo of Zena Dare Zena Dare (born Florence Hariette Zena Dones; 4 February 1887 – 11 March 1975) was an English actress and singer who was famous for her performances in Edwardian musical comedy and other musical theatre and comedic plays in the first half of the 20th century.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Zena Dare4CPostcard franked Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1908(?) - Pub: Philco London - Zena Dare Zena Dare (born Florence Hariette Zena Dones; 4 February 1887 – 11 March 1975) was an English actress and singer who was famous for her performances in Edwardian musical comedy and other musical theatre and comedic plays in the first half of the 20th century.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Zena Dare3
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Gladys Cooper2Postcard franked Wakefield 1918 -Pub: Rotary Photos - Gladys Cooper Dame Gladys Constance Cooper , DBE (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress, theatrical manager and producer, whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television. Beginning as a teenager in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, she starred in dramatic roles and silent films before the First World War. She managed the Playhouse Theatre from 1917 to 1934, where she starred in many roles. From the early 1920s Cooper won praise in plays by W. Somerset Maugham and others. In the 1930s she starred steadily in productions both in London's West End and on Broadway. Moving to Hollywood in 1940, Cooper found success in a variety of character roles. She received three Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress, for performances in The Song of Bernadette (1943), My Fair Lady (1964) and, most famously, Now, Voyager (1942). Throughout the 1950s and 60s she worked both on stage and on screen, continuing to star on stage until her last year.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors Barnaud-GAUnused postcard - Pub: S Hildeshaimer & Co - Photo by Barraud of George Alexander Sir George Alexander (19 June 1858 – 15 March 1918), born George Alexander Gibb Samson, was an English stage actor, theatre producer and theatre manager. After acting on stage as an amateur he turned professional in 1879 and, over the next eleven years, he gained experience with leading producers and actor-managers, including Tom Robertson, Henry Irving and Madge and W. H. Kendal.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors Beagles-MSUnused postcard - Pub: J Beagles & Co - Photo of Marie Stduholme Caroline Maria Lupton (10 September 1872 – 10 March 1930), known professionally as Marie Studholme , was an English actress and singer of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, known for her supporting and sometimes starring roles in Edwardian musical comedy.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors Rotary1580P-GMUnused postcard - Pub: Rotary Photo - Photo of Gertie Millar Gertrude Ward, Countess of Dudley (née Millar; 21 February 1879 – 25 April 1952), known as Gertie Millar , was an English actress and singer of the early 20th century, known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedies.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Edna MayUnused postcard - Pub: Rotary Photo - Photo of Edna May Edna May Pettie (September 2, 1878 – January 1, 1948), known on stage as Edna May , was an American actress and singer. A popular postcard beauty, May was famous for her leading roles in Edwardian musical comedies.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Daisy Thimm
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Daisy ThimmC
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Florence Somers
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Ada ReeveAda Reeve (born Adelaide Mary Reeves, 3 March 1874 – 5 October 1966) was an English actress of both stage and film. Reeve began to perform in pantomime and music hall as a child. She gained fame in Edwardian musical comedies in the 1890s.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Ada ReeveSNAda Reeve (born Adelaide Mary Reeves, 3 March 1874 – 5 October 1966) was an English actress of both stage and film. Reeve began to perform in pantomime and music hall as a child. She gained fame in Edwardian musical comedies in the 1890s.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Denise OrmeJessie Smither, Duchess of Leinster (25 August 1885 – 20 October 1960), known by her stage name Denise Orme , was an English music hall singer, actress and musician who appeared regularly at the Alhambra and Gaiety Theatres in London in the early years of the 20th century. Married, successively, to an English baron, a Danish millionaire, and an Irish duke, she was the maternal grandmother of Aga Khan IV.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Dorothea BairdDorothea Baird (20 May 1875 – 24 September 1933) was an English stage and film actress. Her first stage appearance was with the Oxford University Dramatic Society in February 1894, when she played Iris in The Tempest. She was seen there by Lewis Carroll. On 26 May, he took her to London to see Ellen Terry performing, and then took her backstage to meet Ellen Terry. This inspired her to become a professional actress where she met her future husband, H. B. Irving, with whom she appeared in a number of plays. In 1913, she retired from the stage, due to a miscarriage, and involved herself in charitable causes, especially with infant welfare, and put her attention towards family at a London's health centre known as the St. Pancras School for Mothers, of which she was a board member for many years. In 1917, Baird used her theatre and film experience to create the film “Motherhood”, with the help of Percy Nash, to try to help improve the living habits of mothers and infants and also to create political demands for social improvement.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Forbes RobertsonSir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (16 January 1853 – 6 November 1937) was an English actor and theatre manager and husband of actress Gertrude Elliot. He was considered the finest Hamlet of the Victorian era and one of the finest actors of his time, despite his dislike of the job and his lifelong belief that he was temperamentally unsuited to acting. Forbes-Robertson was also a talented painter who did a portrait of his mentor Samuel Phelps that currently hangs in the Garrick Club in London.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Gabrielle RayGabrielle Ray (born Gabrielle Elizabeth Clifford Cook, 28 April 1883 – 21 May 1973) was an English stage actress, dancer and singer, best known for her roles in Edwardian musical comedies. Early in her career, she was considered one of the most beautiful actresses on the London stage and became one of the most photographed women in the world, but, on returning to the stage after an unsuccessful marriage, she never recovered the fame that she had previously enjoyed.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Gabrielle Ray2PC posted Bournemouth 1906 - Pub: Rotary Photo Co No:1956O Gabrielle Ray (born Gabrielle Elizabeth Clifford Cook, 28 April 1883 – 21 May 1973) was an English stage actress, dancer and singer, best known for her roles in Edwardian musical comedies. Early in her career, she was considered one of the most beautiful actresses on the London stage and became one of the most photographed women in the world, but, on returning to the stage after an unsuccessful marriage, she never recovered the fame that she had previously enjoyed.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Madge CrichtonMadge Crichton (born Margaret (or Marguerite) Dorothy Wakeford 31 October 1879 – 20 March 1951) was born in Scarborough. When she was 15 in 1894, the Walsall Advertiser on Saturday 7 April mentioned her appearance in a Hardie and Von Leer production of ‘On the Frontier’ that her father, Haldane Crichton, was staging at his theatre; the St George’s Theatre, Walsall. In 1916 she left the UK for the USA, where she lived for the rest of her life.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Marie StudholmeCaroline Maria Lupton (10 September 1872 – 10 March 1930), known professionally as Marie Studholme , was an English actress and singer of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, known for her supporting and sometimes starring roles in Edwardian musical comedy. Her attractive features made her one of the most popular postcard beauties of her day. Studholme's theatre career spanned from 1891 to 1915. She was also one of producer George Edwardes' famous Gaiety Girls.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Marie Studholme2Caroline Maria Lupton (10 September 1872 – 10 March 1930), known professionally as Marie Studholme , was an English actress and singer of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, known for her supporting and sometimes starring roles in Edwardian musical comedy. Her attractive features made her one of the most popular postcard beauties of her day. Studholme's theatre career spanned from 1891 to 1915. She was also one of producer George Edwardes' famous Gaiety Girls.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Marie Studholme3Caroline Maria Lupton (10 September 1872 – 10 March 1930), known professionally as Marie Studholme , was an English actress and singer of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, known for her supporting and sometimes starring roles in Edwardian musical comedy. Her attractive features made her one of the most popular postcard beauties of her day. Studholme's theatre career spanned from 1891 to 1915. She was also one of producer George Edwardes' famous Gaiety Girls.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Marie Studholme4Caroline Maria Lupton (10 September 1872 – 10 March 1930), known professionally as Marie Studholme , was an English actress and singer of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, known for her supporting and sometimes starring roles in Edwardian musical comedy. Her attractive features made her one of the most popular postcard beauties of her day. Studholme's theatre career spanned from 1891 to 1915. She was also one of producer George Edwardes' famous Gaiety Girls.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Marie Studholme5Caroline Maria Lupton (10 September 1872 – 10 March 1930), known professionally as Marie Studholme , was an English actress and singer of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, known for her supporting and sometimes starring roles in Edwardian musical comedy. Her attractive features made her one of the most popular postcard beauties of her day. Studholme's theatre career spanned from 1891 to 1915. She was also one of producer George Edwardes' famous Gaiety Girls.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Jessie BatemanPostcard frsnked Gt Yarmouth 1906 - Tuck’s Oilette 6660 “Stage Favourites” series Jessie Eliza Bateman (2 August 1877 – 14 November 1940) was an English stage actress. Bateman began her career as a child actress. After early success on tour in Shakespearean roles, she built her career both in London and foreign tours. She had her greatest success in the early years of the 20th century, and her career spanned over half a century. She died in 1940 at the age of 63.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Gertie MillarUnused PC - Ellis & Wallery No: 80M - Pub:Beagles & Co, London Gertrude Ward, Countess of Dudley née Millar (21 February 1879 – 25 April 1952), known as Gertie Millar , was an English actress and singer of the early 20th century, known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedies. Beginning her career at age 13, Millar was a prominent star of musical comedies for two decades. In 1902, she married the composer Lionel Monckton, who wrote the scores of many of her shows and songs that she made famous. She was one of the most prominent West End theatre performers of the early 20th century, starring in such long-running hits as The Toreador (1901), The Orchid (1903) The Spring Chicken (1905), The New Aladdin (1906) The Girls of Gottenberg (1907), Our Miss Gibbs (1909), The Quaker Girl (1910), Gipsy Love (1912), The Dancing Mistress (1912), The Marriage Market (1913), and A Country Girl (1914). After Monckton died in 1924, Millar married the 2nd Earl of Dudley.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Joan KeddieJoan Keddie (born Dundee 1878, died Glasgow 12 Aug 1921) Soprano Joanne Paterson Keddie joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company "D," billed as the "Savoy Touring Company," in September 1901, appearing as Kathleen in The Emerald Isle until April 1902, when she was summoned to the Savoy. There she created the part of the May Queen in Merrie England. Merrie England ran through July 1902, but Miss Keddie was replaced as May Queen by Olive Rae at some point during the run. Her only other appearance in a named part on the London Stage was as Signorina Tasso in The Cingalee (Daly's, March 1904). She was the first of five artists to take the role in a run that lasted just over a year. Apart from her D’Oyly Carte career (1901-1902), Keddie toured extensively and was one of the most admired performers of her generation – as the May Queen in Merry England and Diana in Rob Roy amongst many other parts. In her relatively short life, she had become a famous actress and singer, popular both with the public and in the profession.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Julia NeilsonRP postcard franked London 1905 - Miss Julia Neilson - Tuck “Flower & Beauty” series Narcissus Julia Emilie Neilson (12 June 1868 – 27 May 1957) was an English actress best known for her numerous performances as Lady Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel, for her roles in many tragedies and historical romances, and for her portrayal of Rosalind in a long-running production of As You Like It. After establishing her reputation in a series of plays by W. S. Gilbert in 1888, Neilson joined the company of Herbert Beerbohm Tree, where she remained for five years, meeting her future husband, Fred Terry (brother to actresses Kate, Ellen, Marion and Florence Terry and great uncle of John Gielgud). With Terry, she played in London and on tour for nearly three decades. Neilson died in a hospital in Hampstead, London, after a fall at her home, in 1957 at the age of 88. She and her husband (who died in 1933) are both buried at Hampstead Cemetery in London.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Julia NeilsonDNNon-pu RP postcard - Miss Julia Neilson - "Dainty Novels" Series Julia Emilie Neilson (12 June 1868 – 27 May 1957) was an English actress best known for her numerous performances as Lady Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel, for her roles in many tragedies and historical romances, and for her portrayal of Rosalind in a long-running production of As You Like It. After establishing her reputation in a series of plays by W. S. Gilbert in 1888, Neilson joined the company of Herbert Beerbohm Tree, where she remained for five years, meeting her future husband, Fred Terry (brother to actresses Kate, Ellen, Marion and Florence Terry and great uncle of John Gielgud). With Terry, she played in London and on tour for nearly three decades. Neilson died in a hospital in Hampstead, London, after a fall at her home, in 1957 at the age of 88. She and her husband (who died in 1933) are both buried at Hampstead Cemetery in London.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Carol HollowayCarol Holloway (April 30, 1892 – January 3, 1979) was an American actress of the silent film era. She appeared in more than 110 films between 1914 and 1941. She was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts and died in California .
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Dorothy TempleNon-pu RP postcard - Dorothy Temple Dorothy (Dot) Temple was born on 12 January 1901 in Bayswater, London. She was an actress, known for Softly Softly: Task Force (1969). She died on 24 November 1987 in Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey. Her lifelong love of the theatre was triggered in 1891 by seeing Lillie Langtry play the title role in Tom Taylor's Lady Clancarty at Cheltenham's New Theatre and Opera House (now the Everyman).
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Isabelle Jay2Isabel Emily Jay (17 October 1879 – 26 February 1927) was an English opera singer and actress, best known for her performances in soprano roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and in Edwardian musical comedies. During Jay's career, picture postcards were immensely popular, and Jay was photographed for over 400 different postcards. After studying at the Royal Academy of Music, Jay joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1897, with whom she began singing principal roles immediately, becoming the company's leading soprano in 1899, where she played leading roles in comic operas including The Rose of Persia, The Pirates of Penzance, Patience, The Emerald Isle and Iolanthe. She married and left the company in 1902. She returned to the West End stage in 1903 and starred in eleven musicals over the ensuing years, including A Country Girl, The Cingalee, Véronique, The White Chrysanthemum, The Girl Behind the Counter, Miss Hook of Holland, King of Cadonia and The Balkan Princess. She retired in 1911 at age 31. Jay's health began to deteriorate due to the effects of scarlet fever as a child, and she died at age 47 in Monte Carlo, having been on a cruise with her husband. In recognition of her achievements, the Royal Academy of Music two years later instituted the Isabel Jay Memorial Prize.
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  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Daisy JeromeSNPostcard franked Peckham c 1905 - “Smart Novels” series - Daisy Jerome Daisy Jerome (born Daisy Witkowski 1881-19?) was born in New York, but raised in England after her father moved the family to England to avoid financial problems in the USA. She played the Palace and toured with companies that gave her a chance to do comedic singing and pantomime. Her performances were considered to be amusing and irreverent. She was described as “feisty”, “cunning”, and “independent”. She has red hair, was small and dainty and had compelling eyes and an expressive face. Her performances had a risqué tone and she had a hoarse, sensual voice. She could toe dance and wooden shoe dance, but was most known as a mimic and comic singer. She went on tour to Australia in the 1910s and early 1920s. More details about Jerome’s life and career as a comedienne can be found here .
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-EJWillardDN_0001Non-pu postcard - “Dainty Novels” series - E S Willard Edward Smith Willard (1853-1915) was an English actor. He was born in Brighton on 9 January 1853 and made his debut on the stage at Weymouth in The Lady of Lyons in 1869. He moved to London in 1875, where he first played Antonio in The Merchant of Venice. One of his greatest successes was his production of The Middleman by Henry Arthur Jones, at the Shaftesbury in 1889, he himself creating the part of Cyrus Blenkarn. He travelled to the United States in 1890, and made his first appearance at Palmer's Theatre (later, Wallack's Theatre) in New York, 10 November 1890, when he again acted in The Middleman. He sailed to England, then returned again to the United States in 1896, remaining till 1903 having made 13 American tours. In 1906, he retired from the stage, but returned on special occasions, as in 1911 for the gala performance at His Majesty's Theatre, London, to play the part of Brutus in the forum scene from Julius Caesar. Willard died in London on 9 November 1915.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Ethel MatthewsDNPostcard franked Peckham c 1905 - “Dainty Novels” series - Ethel Matthews Ethel Matthews (1869-1957), English actress, was born Ethel Garland Matthews at Le Havre, France, on 12 October 1869, the eldest child of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Garland Matthews (1838-1908) of the 44th and Manchester Regiments and his wife, Emily Thérèse (née Johnson, 1845-1905). On 24 November 1892, Miss Matthews was married at Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, to Philip Edward Ellissen (1864-1915), a stockbroker. The name Ellissen was eventually changed to Ellison, the name by which Ethel Matthews was known when she died in the Bayswater area of London on 5 January 1957.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Eva MooreDNNon-pu postcard - “Dainty Novels” series - Eva Moore Eva Moore (1868 – 27 April 1955) was an English actress. Her career on stage and in film spanned six decades, and she was active in the women's suffrage movement. In her 1923 book of reminiscences, Exits and Entrances , she describes approximately ninety of her roles in plays, but she continued to act on stage and in films until 1945. Moore was born on 9 February 1868, the eighth of ten children, and educated in Brighton, Sussex. In 1891 she married actor/playwright Henry V. Esmond (1869–1922), with whom she had three children. Moore was active in the suffrage movement (as was her sister Decima), attending meetings and appearing in suffragist plays and films. She was a founder of the Actresses' Franchise League in 1908, but resigned from that organisation when other members objected to her acting in a sketch called "Her Vote", by her husband, in which the heroine prefers kisses to votes. After the First World War began, she continued acting at the Vaudeville in the evenings, but worked as a volunteer during the day for the Women's Emergency Corps, based at the Little Theatre. She raised money for hospital and wartime causes and was honoured with the Ordre de la Reine Elisabeth for her wartime activities. From 1920 to 1946, Moore made over two dozen films. She published her reminiscences, Exits and Entrances , in 1923, but continued to act until 1945. In later years, she resided at Bisham, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England where she died aged 87 on 27 April 1955.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Hilda TrevelyanDNNon-pu postcard - “Dainty Novels” series - Hilda Trevelyan Hilda Trevelyan (4 February 1877 – 10 November 1959) was an English actress. Early in her career she became known for her performance in plays by J. M. Barrie and is probably best remembered for creating the role of Wendy in Peter Pan. Another early success was as Oliver Twist in a dramatisation of Charles Dickens's novel staged by Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Later in her career she performed in plays by Arnold Bennett, Ian Hay and others, in London and on tour. She retired after her last London play in 1939. Trevelyan was born Hilda Marie Antoinette Anna Tucker, in Hackney, London, daughter of John Joseph Tucker, a farmer, and his French wife, Helene Adolphine Marie Foulon. She was educated at the Ursuline convent in Upton. In 1910 Trevelyan married a fellow-actor, and writer, Sydney Blow (1878–1961). After appearing in a revival of Michael Barringer's comedy-thriller Inquest in 1939 Trevelyan retired. She and her husband, who outlived her, enjoyed twenty years of retirement at their country house near Henley-on-Thames. There were no children of the marriage. She died at Henley-on-Thames, at the age of 82.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Kate CutlerDNNon-pu postcard - “Dainty Novels” series - Kate Cutler Kate Ellen Louisa Cutler (14 August 1864 – 14 May 1955) was an English singer and actress, known in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as an ingénue in musical comedies, and later as a character actress in comic and dramatic plays. She is possibly best known for walking out of the lead role in Noël Coward's The Vortex in 1924 shortly before opening night. Cutler was born in Marylebone, London, daughter of Henry Cutler, a singer, and his wife Mary Ann, née Tims. She trained at a conservatoire in Watford, where one of her tutors described her as "an ideal Cherubino" in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. Her career, however, took her not into opera, but into operetta and then musical comedy. In April 1900, Cutler married her first husband, Sidney Ellison, a director and choreographer. The marriage was unsuccessful, and they separated before his death in 1930. Cutler's second husband, Major Charles Dudley Ward, predeceased her. She died in 1955 at her home in London, aged 90.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Lillah McCarthyDNNon-pu postcard - “Dainty Novels” series - Lillah McCarthy Lila (Lillah) Emma McCarthy (Lillah, Lady Keeble OBE) (22 September 1875 – 15 April 1960) was an English actress and theatrical manager. She was born in Cheltenham on 22 September 1875, the seventh of eight children of Jonadab McCarthy and Emma (née Price). In 1906, McCarthy appeared in Man and Superman opposite Harley Granville Barker. They married in the play and then in real life on 24 April 1906. The period 1907-1913 was a successful one for McCarthy. With the advent of war, McCarthy and her husband sailed to the United States in December 1914 where they had several successes. But for their marriage it was a disaster – Granville Barker met and fell in love with a wealthy, married American. Inevitably, this led to divorce in 1917–18. In 1918 McCarthy met Frederick Keeble, FRS at the Stoke Poges golf club, where they were both members. They married on 27 March 1920 in London. Later that year, McCarthy was appointed OBE for her “services in connection with the organisation of matinées and the collection of funds for the Queen Mary Fund in aid of the Star and Garter Hospital.” They settled in Boars Hill, near Oxford. Frederick Keeble was knighted by King George V in 1922. McCarthy's last appearance on the London stage was in Iphigenia in Tauris at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in 1932. She died at her home in London on 15 April 1960.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Lily ElsieDNNon-pu postcard - “Dainty Novels” series - Lily Elsie Elsie Cotton (née Hodder, 8 April 1886 – 16 December 1962), known professionally as Lily Elsie , was an English actress and singer during the Edwardian era. She was best known for her starring role in the London premiere of Franz Léhar's operetta The Merry Widow. Beginning as a child star in the 1890s, Elsie built her reputation in several successful Edwardian musical comedies before her great success in The Merry Widow, opening in 1907. Afterwards, she starred in several more successful operettas and musicals, including The Dollar Princess (1909), A Waltz Dream (1911) and The Count of Luxembourg (1911). Admired for her beauty and charm on stage, Elsie became one of the most photographed women of Edwardian times. Elsie was born in Armley, West Yorkshire. Her mother, Charlotte Elizabeth Hodder (1864–1922), was a dressmaker who operated a lodging-house. She married William Thomas Cotton, a theatre worker, in 1891, and Elsie became Elsie Cotton. The family lived in Manchester. Elsie was also the niece of Wilfred Cotton, who married actress Ada Reeve. In 1920, Elsie moved with her husband to the Gloucestershire village of Redmarley D'Abitot. She spent ten years away from the stage during this time, enjoying social events and fox hunting. She returned to performing, first touring and then appearing at the Prince of Wales's Theatre in London in 1927 as Eileen Mayne in The Blue Train, the English language adaptation of Robert Stolz's German musical comedy Mädi. Her last show before retiring was Ivor Novello's successful The Truth Game back at Daly's Theatre in 1928–1929. Finally, in 1930, Elsie's unhappy marriage ended in divorce as her health deteriorated further and she became subject to fits of ill temper. She spent much time in nursing homes and Swiss sanatoria. She was diagnosed as having serious psychological ailments and underwent brain surgery that reportedly resulted in an improvement in her health. Her last years were spent at St. Andrew's Hospital (demolished in 1973), Cricklewood, London, where she died aged 76.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Miriam ClementsDNNon-pu postcard - “Dainty Novels” series - Miriam Clements Miriam Clements (1869-1954), married name Mrs. Cecil Ainsley Walker-Leigh, made her stage debut in 1893 in Dion Boucicault's The Octaroon at the Theatre Royal in Margate, England. In that same venue she played Juliet in 1893. Her next Shakespeare part was in London at Her Majesty's Theatre where she played Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1900. Her last recorded performance in a play by Shakespeare was as Hero in Much Ado About Nothing at His Majesty's Theatre, London, in 1905.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Mrs Lewis WallerDNNon-pu postcard - “Dainty Novels” series - Mrs Brown Potter Mary Cora Urquhart or Cora Brown–Potter (May 15, 1857 – February 12, 1936) was an American actress who found success in London. Formerly a member of The Four Hundred in New York, she was one of the first American society women to become a stage actress. Urquhart was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was the first of four children of Augusta (née Slocomb) and Col. David Urquhart. Her father was a merchant and her mother the daughter of a hardware merchant. Because her family was affluent, she was privately educated. When she was eighteen years old, Urquhart married coffee broker James Brown Potter on December 7, 1877. They had a daughter, Anne "Fifi" Urquhart Potter, in 1879. The Brown–Potters visited England in the summer of 1886. While attending a palace ball, she met the George Frederick Ernest Albert, Prince of Wales, who invited the couple to spend the weekend Sandringham House. James returned to the United States with their daughter Fifi, while Cora remained in England to pursue a career on the stage. Potter divorced Urquhart on June 4, 1900, on the grounds of "desertion for more than five years and living apart for more than ten years" and remarried in 1904. However, Cora continued to use his name as her stage name. In 1912, she brought her mother to England and they lived at Staines on the Thames in a stone house that had previously served as a lodge of Windsor Castle. In 1936, she died at her villa in Beaulieu-sur-Mer at the age of 78 years.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Nancy PriceYNNon-pu postcard - “Dainty Novels” series - Nancy Price Nancy Price , CBE (3 February 1880 – 31 March 1970) was an English actress on stage and screen, author and theatre director. Her acting career began in a repertory theatre company before progressing to the London stage, silent films, talkies and finally television. In addition to appearing on stage, she became involved in theatre production and was a founder of the People's National Theatre. Lilian Nancy Bache Price was born in Kinver, Staffordshire, England, the daughter of William Henry Price (a retired farmer) and Sarah Mannix. Her mother was the granddaughter of Sir Henry Mannix. After schooling in her home village and then in nearby Malvern Wells, she decided at an early age to become an actress. She married the actor Charles Maude on 17 May 1907, and they were together until his death in 1943. Soon after Charles and Nancy's daughters were born, they made the village of Findon in Sussex her home. Findon remained Nancy’s home until her death in 1970.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-Ruth SavileSNPostcard franked London 1906 - “Smart Novels” series - Ruth Savile Ruth Saville was born on June 7, 1892 in Allessandro, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Humanity (1916), Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) and Too Much Turkey (1915). She was married to R J Connors. She died on March 31, 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
  • PC_Edwardian Actors-SHicks+ETerrissSNPostcard franked Farnham 1905 - “Smart Novels” series - Seymour Hicks & Ellalaine Terriss Sir Edward Seymour Hicks (30 January 1871 – 6 April 1949), better known as Seymour Hicks , was a British actor, music hall performer, playwright, actor-manager and producer. He became known, early in his career, for writing, starring in and producing Edwardian musical comedy, often together with his famous wife, Ellaline Terriss. His most famous acting role was that of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. He continued appearing on stage and in films until a year before his death in Hampshire, England, at the age of 78. Mary Ellaline Terriss , Lady Hicks (born Mary Ellaline Lewin, 13 April 1871 – 16 June 1971), known professionally as Ellaline Terriss , was a popular British actress and singer, best known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedies. She met and married the actor-producer Seymour Hicks in 1893, and the two collaborated on many projects for the stage and screen. Her later career also included film roles. She began in the silent films Scrooge and David Garrick (both from 1913) and made a successful transfer to talkies; her last film was The Four Just Men in 1939. In 1940, Terriss and Hicks went to the Middle East with "ENSA", to entertain the British troops in World War II. After the war, Terriss retired from the stage. She and Hicks moved to South Africa, where she took up painting and was tutored by the marine artist George Pilkington. So good were her works that an exhibition was held at Foyle's Art Gallery, London, in February 1959. Hicks, who was knighted in 1935, died in 1949, and Terriss survived him by 22 years. She died as a result of a fall in a nursing home in Hampstead, England, at the age of 100.
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