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Lily Elsie (early 1900s) | Romola Garai as Barbara Spooner in Amazing Grace (2006)
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A collage of famous Edwardian beauties
Top (from left to right): Evelyn Nesbit, Lina Cavalieri, Marie Doro
Bottom (from left to right): Lily Elsie, Cleo de Merode, Maude Fealy
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Two pictures of Lily Elsie looking particularly dapper.
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Lily Elsie, popular English actress and singer during the Edwardian era, best known for her starring role in the hit London premiere of Franz Lehár’s operetta The Merry Widow.
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Lily Elsie photographed by Rita Martin, 1907.
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Miss Lily Elsie
Miss Lily Elsie made her name on the opening night of The Merry Widow, in London, on 8th June 1907. Overnight she had the town at her feet. On the stage Elsie seemed mysteriously beautiful with her perfect Grecian profile, enormous blue eyes, and hauntingly sad smile. Tall, cool, and lily-like, she moved with lyrical gestures in a slow-motion grace. She was a true ‘star’ of Edwardian times, although the word was yet to be used in that context. Magazines produced special supplements about her, adverts featured her picture. Although her fame and fortune came entirely from public appearances she was painfully shy. After just a few years on the stage she retired to a quite life away from the public eye. She did however leave us with hundreds of pictures, a few gramophone discs, and two films, to remember her by.
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Lily Elsie as Lally in The New Aladdin.