Evelyn Laye
Birthday
1900/07/10
Day of death
1996/02/17 (95 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Bloomsbury, London, England, UK
Also know as
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Biography
From Wikipedia Evelyn Laye, CBE (10 July 1900 – 17 February 1996) was an English theatre and musical film actress, who was active on the London light opera stage. Born as Elsie Evelyn Lay in Bloomsbury, London, and known professionally as Evelyn Laye, and informally as Boo. Her parents were both actors and her father a theatre manager. She made her first stage appearance in August 1915 at the Theatre Royal, Brighton as Nang-Ping in Mr. Wu, and her first London appearance at the East Ham Pala...Read more
Acting
(1982) A Bit of Singing and Dancing
as Mother
(1930) One Heavenly Night
as Lilli
(1927) The Luck of the Navy
as Cynthia Eden
(1933) Waltz Time
as Rosalinde Eisenstein
(1934) Princess Charming
as Princess Elaine
(1935) The Night Is Young
as Elizabeth Katherine Anne 'Lisl' Gluck
(1971) Say Hello to Yesterday
as Woman's mother
(1934) Evensong
as Madame Irela (Maggie O'Neil)
(1957) Silver Wedding
as Lady Marlowe
(1970) Love, I Think
as Cynthia Pitman
(1967) Theatre of Death
as Madame Angelique
(1988) The Woman He Loved
as Lady Cunard
(1946) I'll Turn to You
as Herself
(1922) Who Would Not Welcome One?
as Herself
(1931) Let's Go Bathing!
as ---
(1980) Never Never Land
as Millie
(1983) The Gay Lord Quex
as The Countess of Owbridge
(1979) Tales of the Unexpected
as Mrs Standing