Billie Carleton & Malvina Longfellow

A double page spread of photographs profiling Billie Carleton, (4 September 1896 - 28 November 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 (just a few months after these pictures were published), 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 home of Malvina Longfellow, film actress at the latter's home in Margaretting, Essex

Billie Carleton Longfellow Malvina Spread

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