Beatrice Lillie

Beatrice Lillie, whose reputation for being the funniest woman in the world kept her employed in revues and musicals for over fifty years, made her début in England in 1914 and was already a popular celebrity when she married Sir Robert Peel in 1920.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

Which is pretty much what happened; she stole the show, and was largely responsible along with Grimes for the show running as long as it did, but she was doing An Evening With Beatrice Lillie, not playing the character.

Obscure Musicals: HIGH SPIRITS (1964) Jaime J. Weinman 2007

He was not particularly happy, it was said, with the casting of Beatrice Lillie as the medium Madame Arcati played in the original play and movie by Margaret Rutherford.

Archive 2007-10-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007

He was not particularly happy, it was said, with the casting of Beatrice Lillie as the medium Madame Arcati played in the original play and movie by Margaret Rutherford.

Obscure Musicals: HIGH SPIRITS (1964) Jaime J. Weinman 2007

Which is pretty much what happened; she stole the show, and was largely responsible along with Grimes for the show running as long as it did, but she was doing An Evening With Beatrice Lillie, not playing the character.

Archive 2007-10-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007

Within a few months of his arrival in Los Angeles we find him touring with Al on the Orpheum circuit as Two Boys and a Piano, partying at San Simeon with William Randolph Hearst Jr., and amusing Beatrice Lillie at a party in the Hollywood Hills with his rendition of "When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin 'Along."

All the Luck in the World O'Brien, Geoffrey 2001

I almost expected Beatrice Lillie to emerge from among the guests at Gatsby's parties and talk about Nounou and Nada and Nell.

The Ghost of Gatsby Mazzocco, Robert 1974

The splendid food was at first accompanied by some of the stars of international cabaret --- Lucienne Boyer, Beatrice Lillie, and the Jolly Coburn Orchestra.

WN.com - Business News 2010

The splendid food was at first accompanied by some of the stars of international cabaret --- Lucienne Boyer, Beatrice Lillie, and the Jolly Coburn Orchestra.

WN.com - Business News 2010

High Spirits, a character who even has a ditty titled "The Bicycle Song" that had Beatrice Lillie and her acolytes peddling around the stage in the original 1964 Broadway production.

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