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Beatrice Gladys Lillie, Lady Peel (29 May 1894 – 20 January 1989), known as Bea Lillie, was a Canadian-born British actress, singer and comedic performer. She began to perform as a child with her mother and sister.
Beatrice Lillie was a sophisticated-comedy star of British and American revues, perhaps the foremost theatrical comedienne of the 20th century. Making her stage debut in London in 1914 as a sentimental-ballad singer, Lillie proved her comic genius in a series of revues produced by André Charlot.
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Beatrice Lillie Award. Scholarships in the name of the comedic performer Beatrice Lillie. Courses: Applicants holding an offer on BA (Hons) Acting - Musical Theatre or MA Music Theatre. Eligibility: Home/ELQ/Overseas. Number of Awards: 2. Individual Award Value: £4000.
Sep 4, 2017 · Beatrice Lillie (aka Lady Peel) in Exit Smiling (1926). There’s a tradition of eccentric English actresses who made improbably triumphant careers for themselves in the twentieth century.
Lillie's first formal education in the mimicry that would become the basis of her humor came from Harry Rich, an erstwhile music-hall entertainer who had set himself up in business as the Rich Concert and Entertainment Bureau.
(1894–1989). A sophisticated star of British and American theatrical revues for nearly 50 years, Canadian-born Beatrice Lillie ranks as one of the most celebrated stage comediennes of the 1900s.
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She left school at 15 to become a member of a singing trio with her mother and sister. Some theatrical books list her date of birth as 1898 but her conservator, Huck, told the Associated Press...
