Binnie Hale
Beatrice "Binnie" Mary Hale-Monro (22 May 1899 – 10 January 1984), English actress, singer and dancer. She was one of the most successful musical theatre stars in London in the 1920s and 1930s, able to sing leading roles in operetta as well as musicals, and she was popular as a principal boy in pantomime. Her best-remembered roles were in the musicals No, No, Nanette (1925) and Mr. Cinders (1929), performed at the London Hippodrome with co-star Bobby Howes, in which she sang "Spread a Little Happiness".
In the 1930s she also pursued a film career and later had a radio show together with her brother Sonnie Hale. She continued to act and sing on stage through the 1950s. Her father was Robert Hale, another successful stage favourite of the early twentieth century
