Billie Carleton
Billie Carleton (1896 - 1918), English musical comedy actress during the First World War. She began her professional stage career at age 15 and was playing roles in the West End by age 18. She appeared in the hit musical The Boy (1917), which led to a starring role in The Freedom of the Seas in 1918. She was found dead, apparently of a drug overdose, the morning after she had appeared at the famous Victory Ball at the Royal Albert Hall, held to celebrate the end of the First World War. Pictured here at the time of her success in The Boy in which she played the part of Joy Chatterton
Picture No
13991538
Media ID
45429508
Size
3500px x 4718px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Bertram Park in The Tatler, 28 November 1917
Date
1917
