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Evelyn Laye
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia
Evelyn Laye, CBE (10 July 1900 – 17 February 1996) was an English theatre and musical film actress, who was active on the London light opera stage.
Born as Elsie Evelyn Lay in Bloomsbury, London, and known professionally as Evelyn Laye, and informally as Boo.
Her parents were both actors and her father a theatre manager. She made her first stage appearance in August 1915 at the Theatre Royal, Brighton as Nang-Ping in Mr. Wu, and her first London appearance at the East Ham Palace on 24 April 1916, aged 16, in the revue Honi Soit, in which she subsequently toured.
For the fir…
Filmography
Movies
The Woman He Loved
as Lady Cunard
Sun Child
The Gay Lord Quex
as The Countess of Owbridge
A Bit of Singing and Dancing
as Mother
Never Never Land
as Millie
Say Hello to Yesterday
as Woman's mother
Love, I Think
as Cynthia Pitman
Theatre of Death
as Madame Angelique
Silver Wedding
as Lady Marlowe
I'll Turn to You
as Herself
