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Evelyn Laye is a Actor British born on 10 july 1900 at Bloomsbury (United-kingdom)

Evelyn Laye

Evelyn Laye
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Birth name Elsie Evelyn Lay
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 10 july 1900 at Bloomsbury (United-kingdom)
Death 17 february 1996 (at 95 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

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 Palace on 24 April 1916, aged 16, in the revue Honi Soit, in which she subsequently toured.

For the first few years of her career she mainly played in musical comedy and operetta, including Going Up in 1918. Among her successes during the 1920s were Phi-Phi (1922), Madame Pompadour (1923), The Dollar Princess, Blue Eyes (1928) and Lilac Time. She made her Broadway debut in 1929 in the American première of Noël Coward's Bitter Sweet and appeared in several early Hollywood film musicals. She continued acting in pantomimes such as The Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. After the Second World War, she had less success, but she returned to the West End in 1954, in the musical Wedding in Paris. She also acted several times opposite her second husband, actor Frank Lawton, including in the 1956 sitcom My Husband and I. Other stage successes included Silver Wedding (1957; with Lawton), The Amorous Prawn (1959) and Phil the Fluter (1969).

She was the subject of This Is Your Life on two occasions, in August 1959 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre, and in December 1990, when Michael Aspel surprised her at Croydon's Fairfield Hall.

Biography

Married to the actor Sonnie Hale in 1926, Laye received widespread public sympathy when Hale left her for the actress Jessie Matthews in 1928. She was initially very reluctant to abandon the marriage, but, despite a trial reconciliation, a divorce case eventually followed in 1930, with the judge labeling Matthews an "odious person". She subsequently wed actor Frank Lawton, with whom she remained married until his death.

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Alvin Rakoff
Alvin Rakoff
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Gregg Toland
Gregg Toland
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Henry Victor
Henry Victor
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Arthur Askey
Arthur Askey
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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Evelyn Laye (11 films)

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Actress

The Woman He Loved, 1h40
Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Actors Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Olivia de Havilland, Tom Wilkinson, Lucy Gutteridge, Robert Hardy
Roles Lady Cunard
Rating61% 3.0984453.0984453.0984453.0984453.098445
28 mai 1972, le duc de Windsor, ex-roi Édouard VII, décède d'un cancer de la gorge un mois avant ses 78 ans dans sa résidence du Bois de Boulogne à Paris. Seule, ayant perdu son mari et son titre de duchesse, sa femme Wallis qui commence à être gagnée par la sénilité à 76 ans, se souvient des 35 années passées avec nostalgie et regret.
Say Hello to Yesterday, 1h36
Directed by Alvin Rakoff
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jean Simmons, Leonard Whiting, Evelyn Laye, Jack Woolgar, John Lee, Derek Francis
Roles Woman's mother
Rating57% 2.854112.854112.854112.854112.85411
From one of the upper middle class suburbs of London, the Woman, having just quarrelled with her husband is going to London, shopping. Unhappily she drives to the station. Among the crowd as she boards the train is the Boy. He is 22 today. He is bored. He is determined to make the day a different one.
Theatre of Death, 1h31
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Actors Christopher Lee, Julian Glover, Lelia Goldoni, Evelyn Laye, Ivor Dean, Joseph Fürst
Roles Madame Angelique
Rating57% 2.8571852.8571852.8571852.8571852.857185
Le Théâtre de la Mort à Paris est spécialisé dans les représentations d'horreur. Un chirurgien de la police fréquente cet endroit par son attirance pour l'une des interprètes. Lorsque des meurtres commencent à apparaître partout dans la ville, il se rend compte qu'il pourrait y avoir des liens avec le théâtre....
Make Mine a Million, 1h21
Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Dermot Walsh, Arthur Askey, Sid James, Olga Lindo, Clive Morton, Bernard Cribbins
Roles Herself, Cameo appearance
Rating62% 3.100253.100253.100253.100253.10025
Arthur Ashton is a makeup man working for National Television (a parody of the BBC). During a visit to the local laundry, he meets Sid Gibson a shady salesmen who is trying to flog Bonko, a brand of washing powder, but who can't afford to advertise on TV. The fairly clueless Arthur agrees to help him, and they manage to plug an advert for Bonko on National Television by interrupting the live feed. This causes quite a stir amongst the National heads, who have Arthur fired. Despite this, the advert proves extremely popular and demand for the product soars.
The Night Is Young, 1h21
Directed by Dudley Murphy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Ramón Novarro, Evelyn Laye, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel, Charles Judels, Edward Everett Horton
Roles Elizabeth Katherine Anne 'Lisl' Gluck
Rating62% 3.1445353.1445353.1445353.1445353.144535
Evensong
Evensong (1934)
, 1h27
Directed by Victor Saville
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Evelyn Laye, Fritz Kortner, Emlyn Williams, Carl Esmond, Alice Delysia, Muriel Aked
Roles Madame Irela (Maggie O'Neil)
Rating63% 3.182813.182813.182813.182813.18281
Une cantatrice irlandaise abandonne sa carrière par amour.