Picture No | 10725567 |
Date | 1918 |
Description | Sketch cover, Miss Billie Carleton |
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Front cover of The Sketch featuring a portrait of Billie Carleton 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 at the time she was appearing in 'The Freedom of the Seas,' at the Haymarket Theatre.
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Source | Photograph by Compton Collier on the front cover of The Sketch magazine, 2 October 1918 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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