Blanche as Robinson Crusoe in 1893–94 Drury Lane pantomime
Ada Blanche (born Ada Cecilia Blanche Adams; 16 July 1862 – 1 January 1953) was an English actress and singer known early in her career for vivacious performances in Victorian burlesque and pantomime and later in character roles in Edwardian musical comedy.
Born into a theatrical family, Blanche made her stage debut at the age of fourteen and had a forty-five year career, almost exclusively on the British stage, in the West End and on tour. In the 1890s she was a leading principal boy in London's most lavishly staged pantomimes. In the 20th century her career changed to playing comic, formidable older women. Her most celebrated role of this kind was in the hit musical The Arcadians (1909), staged by her brother-in-law Robert Courtneidge.
Beyond musical comedy, Blanche appeared in farces and other comedies in non-singing roles between 1906 and her retirement in 1921. Among her co-stars during her long career were George Grossmith Jr., Dan Leno, Marie Lloyd, Walter Passmore, Kate Santley and Little Tich.
AdaBlanche (born Ada Cecilia Blanche Adams; 16 July 1862 – 1 January 1953) was an English actress and singer known early in her career for vivacious...
actress Cicely Nott and the sister of three other actresses, including AdaBlanche, a well-known pantomime star. In 1901, at the age of eight, Courtneidge...
Bentonville, Arkansas 2017: Chihuly at the Catalina Island Museum, AdaBlanche Wrigley Schreiner Building, Avalon, California 2018: Chihuly at Biltmore...
one half mile from its original location in the Catalina Casino. The AdaBlanche Wrigley Schreiner Building is located at 217 Metropole Avenue. The museum...
with a libretto by Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton. The cast included AdaBlanche as Dick, Dan Leno as Jack the idle apprentice, Herbert Campbell as Eliza...
Gaiety Theatre, popularising the roles in Victorian burlesque 1893 - AdaBlanche stars in the musical adaptation of Robinson Crusoe 1898 - Queenie Leighton...
Harry Randall, Herbert Campbell, Vesta Victoria, the Brothers Griffiths, AdaBlanche, Leo Stormont, Little Tich, Dan Leno and Eugene Stratton. In 1900, the...
twice, in total producing six children. On 16 April 1904 he married BlancheAda Bray, born on 10 November 1881 in Adelaide, only daughter of Sir John...
Thumb". As well as Leno, Lloyd and Campbell, Harris recruited the singers AdaBlanche and Cecilia Loftus as principal boy and girl respectively. Harris was...
officials increasingly led to conflicts. On 10 December 1883, Pryer married AdaBlanche Locke and began to retire from the administration post. After his retirement...
Aliens Act of 1905. Heinemann Educational. pp. 60–3. ISBN 0-435-32350-4. AdaBlanche Nisbet (2001). British Comment on the United States: A Chronological...
biography of his father. Robert Wilton Bungey, the son of Ernest and AdaBlanche Bungey, was born on 14 October 1914 at Fullarton, a suburb of Adelaide...
the popular Theatre Royal, Drury Lane pantomime alongside Marie Lloyd, AdaBlanche, Dan Leno, Herbert Campbell and Mabel Love. Making the most of her Scottish...
English Literature John Erskine Hankins Louis L. Martz Also won in 1981 AdaBlanche Nisbet Also won in 1954 Mark Schorer Also won in 1941, 1942, 1973 Fine...
Rose Mary Anne, b. 4 November 1837 Letitia Frances, b. 15 August 1843 AdaBlanche, b. 26 March 1855 Burke's Landed Gentry; 17th Edition 1952; under Copland-Griffiths...
actress Cicely Nott and the sister of three other actresses including AdaBlanche, a well-known pantomime star. In 1892 Courtneidge and his wife went to...
of BlancheAda (née Coules) (1846–1936) and John Isaac Thornycroft. She had four sisters, Edith Alice (1871–1959), Mary Beatrix (1875–1965), Ada Francis...
Ralph Cohen Charlton Hinman Also won in 1953 Samuel Frederick Johnson AdaBlanche Nisbet Also won in 1948 Arthur Hawley Scouten (de) Ernest Albert Strathmann...
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Phyllis Ada Diller (née Driver; July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012) was an American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician, and visual artist, best...
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