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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. Actress: Thoroughly Modern Millie. Dubbed "the funniest woman in the world", comedienne Beatrice Lillie was born the daughter of a Canadian government official and grew up in Toronto. She sang in a family trio act with her mother, Lucy, and her piano-playing older sister, Muriel.
- January 1, 1
- Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
- January 1, 1
- Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK
May 25, 2024 · 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. Actress: Thoroughly Modern Millie. Dubbed "the funniest woman in the world", comedienne Beatrice Lillie was born the daughter of a Canadian government official and grew up in Toronto. She sang in a family trio act with her mother, Lucy, and her piano-playing older sister, Muriel.
- May 29, 1894
- January 20, 1989
Jan 21, 1989 · Beatrice Lillie, who during a half-century theatrical career was often called ''the funniest woman in the world,'' died yesterday at her home in Henley-on-Thames, England. She was 94 years old.
Jul 18, 2007 · Although she would be known mainly for her Broadway and London West End successes and for her appearances in films (as late as 1967) and on radio and TV, Beatrice Lillie began recording quite early - in England for Columbia 1915-19, and in New York for Columbia in 1925, Victor in 1926, the Gramophone Shop in 1934, and Liberty Music Stores in 1939.
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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.
