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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.
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.
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.
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.
Beatrice (Gladys) Lillie (Lady Peel),. Comedienne, singer, b Toronto 29 May 1894, d Henley-on-Thames, Eng, 20 Jan 1989. (Contrary to the widely published birth year of 1898, she was reported on her death to have been 94.)
Popular Canadian-born comedian of radio, stage and screen. Name variations: Lady Peel. Born Beatrice Gladys Lillie on May 29, 1894, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; died on January 20, 1989, in Henley-on-Thames, England; daughter of John Lillie and Lucy Shaw Lillie; married Sir Robert Peel, in 1920 (died 1933); children: one son, Robert (died 1942).