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Bryan made her stage debut as a child in a pantomime in Manchester, and encouraged by her mother, joined the Oldham Repertory while still a teenager. After spending six years honing her craft there, she moved to London to develop her stage career, becoming a regular performer in the West End.
Jul 23, 2014 · Her adopted daughter Georgina died from alcoholism, her son Daniel endured a debilitating illness and she herself experienced alcoholism.
Dora Bryan and son Daniel. Daniel arrived aged four weeks. He was blond and perfect. Mrs Biggs matched up families well. Daniel’s mother had come over from New Zealand and fallen for a handsome rugby player.
Jul 24, 2014 · It seemed that Bryan was unable to have children, and they adopted a son, Daniel, and a daughter, Georgina, then in her late thirties she bore a child, William.
Jul 23, 2014 · They had been childhood sweethearts, and were engaged for more than 13 years. Friends recalled that Dora Bryan (then starring in Much Binding in the Marsh in London) was annoyed when she read...
Jul 25, 2014 · Bryan suffered several nervous breakdowns, the first in 1957, and lost three children at birth – two of her adopted children also caused problems and her husband suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.
She did bear one biological child, William Lawton, after she and her husband had adopted two children: Daniel and Georgina. Daniel had one son (Samuel) and William had one son (Nathaniel). Georgina Lawton died from alcoholism at the age of only 36.
