Phyllis Dare (born Phyllis Constance Haddie Dones; 15 August 1890 – 27 April 1975) was an English actress and singer famous for her performances in Edwardian musical comedy and other musical theatre in the first half of the 20th century.
Born in Chelsea, London, Dare first performed on stage at the age of nine, in the Christmas pantomime Babes in the Wood (1899), together with her sister, Zena. Later that year, she appeared as Little Christina in Ib and Little Christina. She soon played Mab in the Seymour Hicks musical Bluebell in Fairyland, and at the age of 15, she took over the starring role of Angela in The Catch of the Season.
In 1909, Dare created the role of Eileen Cavanagh in the hit musical The Arcadians, where she met the producer George Edwardes. This started a long association between the two, who collaborated on productions including The Girl in the Train, Peggy and The Quaker Girl. In 1912, she starred in The Sunshine Girl. In 1913 she joined the cast of The Dancing Mistress, as Nancy Joyce, at the Adelphi Theatre and continued to star in successful productions throughout the 1920s, including in the role of Mariana in The Lady of the Rose (1922).
During her later career, she turned to straight plays, some of which included Aren't We All in 1929, Words and Music in 1932 and The Fugitives in 1936. She appeared occasionally in films, starring in The Argentine Tango and Other Dances in 1913, Dr. Wake's Patient in 1916, Crime on the Hill in 1933 and Debt of Honour in 1936. In the 1940s she appeared in a tour of Full House and was later cast in Other People's Houses. In 1949, Dare opened as Marta the mistress in Ivor Novello's musical, King's Rhapsody. The show ran for two years and was Dare's last theatrical endeavour. She retired to Brighton in 1951 and died 27 April 1975 at the age of 84.
PhyllisDare (born Phyllis Constance Haddie Dones; 15 August 1890 – 27 April 1975) was an English actress and singer famous for her performances in Edwardian...
Dones. She starred alongside her sister Phyllis in the production, and they both adopted the stage name of Dare soon afterwards. In the first decade of...
Cinderella stage versions, including one with Ellaline Terriss and one with PhyllisDare Parallel German-English text of brothers Grimm's version in ParallelBook...
actresses Marie Tempest, Gertie Millar, Lily Elsie, Ellaline Terriss and PhyllisDare, leading men such as Hayden Coffin and Harry Grattan, and comics such...
included such performers as Jack Buchanan, Eric Blore, Binnie Hale, and PhyllisDare, as well as the performers who would later form The Co-Optimists. Upon...
comedy, The Sunshine Girl, at the Gaiety Theatre, London. It starred PhyllisDare, one of the most popular pin-ups of the Edwardian era, and was written...
Tatler spawned films, theatre and three books. The costumes imagined for PhyllisDare when she played Eve at the Adelphi Theatre were said to have influenced...
Stanley Holloway, Yvonne Arnaud, Leslie Henson, George Grossmith, Jr. and PhyllisDare. The plot of the musical was adapted by Bolton and Wodehouse from the...
withdraw. Dare was later replaced by Terriss and then by Dare's sister, PhyllisDare) and Louie Pounds. John Maria and Rocco Gatti took over management of...
27 July 2009. Also see Thompson, Paul (January 1907). "Our Portraits: PhyllisDare". The Burr McIntosh Monthly. XII (47): 194. Retrieved 27 July 2009. Smedley...
841 performances. The show starred Novello and the cast included PhyllisDare, Zena Dare, Olive Gilbert and Bobbie Andrews. It was still running, at the...
starred George Grossmith, Jr. as Lord Bicester, Edmund Payne as Floot and PhyllisDare as Delia Dale. It also had a Broadway run in 1913 at the Knickerbocker...
and so Zena Dare originated the leading role in The Catch of the Season until Terriss could assume the role. Dare's sister PhyllisDare left the stage...
long-running Edwardian musical comedy The Arcadians, which she took over from PhyllisDare in 1910. In the piece that followed, The Mousmé (1911), which also featured...
Bing Boys Are Here (1916). His co-stars included George Grossmith Jr., PhyllisDare, George Robey and Violet Lorraine. Ill health brought Lester's career...
successful 536 performances. It starred Gertie Millar and C. Hayden Coffin. PhyllisDare starred in the Paris production in 1911. It then opened at the Park Theatre...
Gleason Orchestra (1957) Dolores Hope Jack Hylton and his orchestra (1927) PhyllisDare and the Gaiety Theatre Orchestra (1927) Harry James Al Jolson (Stage...
Purdell as Pedro Salvas Garry Marsh as Bill Stewart Rome as Major Purvis PhyllisDare as Mrs Stretton Joyce Kennedy as Lady Bracebury William Kendall as Paul...
Whitehall Theatre (1937) and The Day After Tomorrow (1946), starring PhyllisDare. For the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1928 he played the title role...
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