1952) was an English music hall performer. She adopted the stage name Vesta Tilley and became one of the best-known male impersonators of her era. Her career...

American politician Vesta Stoudt (1891–1966), American factory worker Vesta Tilley (Matilda Alice Powles, 1864–1952), English actress Vesta Victoria (1873–1951)...

Marie Loftus Ouida MacDermott Nellie Navette Ada Reeve Nellie Stewart Vesta Tilley Harriet Vernon Dorothy Ward Cross-gender acting Breeches role Pantomime...

First Vesta Tilley 2018 Tiny Little Life Short film 2019 Skin Lucy Short film 2022 What Comes Around Beth TBA Mary Pickford: Love Wild Vesta Tilley Post-production...

Jerry Stovin. It portrays the life of the stage performer Vesta Tilley. Pat Kirkwood as Vesta Tilley Laurence Harvey as Walter de Frece Jerry Stovin as Frank...

1886, she married her dresser, Annie Ryan. British music hall performer Vesta Tilley was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a male impersonator...

ISBN 978-0-7190-5261-3. "Vesta Tilley Biography". Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. accessed 13 May 2016 Vesta Tilley, Sarah Maitland (1986...

(MP) from 1920 to 1931. His wife was the celebrated male impersonator Vesta Tilley. Abraham Walter de Frece was one of four sons of Henry (Harry) de Frece...

city. Also born in Worcester was Matilda Alice Powles, better known as Vesta Tilley, a leading male impersonator and music hall artiste. In present-day Worcester...

dissolved. It was opened on 1 July 1907 by variety and vaudeville star Vesta Tilley, who had laid the foundation stone on 29 September 1906. The dome on...

start of the film, that it is the former home of the music hall star, Vesta Tilley In 1963 the film I Could Go On Singing with Judy Garland's character...

Revue. In an interview with Gay Times, Cider cited male impersonator Vesta Tilley, Australian drag king Sexy Galexy and lesbian icon Stormé DeLarverie...

Little Tich (1867–1928) Vesta Tilley (1864–1952) Sam Torr (1849–1923) Alfred Vance (1839–1888) Harriet Vernon (1852–1923) Vesta Victoria (1873–1951) Harry...

"Burlington Bertie", an English music hall song of 1900 associated with Vesta Tilley Burlington Post, the local newspaper of Burlington, Ontario, Canada The...

it harmless enough to laugh at themselves. Mashers such as the famed Vesta Tilley capitalised on the fact that both men and women were able to laugh at...

of Representatives Vesta Tilley (1864–1952), English male impersonator Eustace Tilley, the mascot of The New Yorker Renet Tilley, character in Teenage...

Barnes became interested in performing as a result of going to see Vesta Tilley in 1895. Encouraged by the popular pantomime performer Dorothy Ward,...

Humphry Ward, May Wedderburn Cannan, Emma Orczy, and entertainers such as Vesta Tilley. In particular, the poem "War Girls", similar in structure to her pro-war...

a 'cushy' one to send them back to 'Blitey'." The music hall artiste Vesta Tilley had a hit in 1916 with the song "I'm Glad I've Got a Bit of a Blighty...

Gertrude Lawrence, actress, singer, dancer (b. 1898) 16 September – Vesta Tilley, music hall entertainer (b. 1864) 21 October – Charles Draper, clarinetist...

Rogers and Trigger, Charlton Heston, Sarah Bernhardt, Henry Irving, Vesta Tilley, and Arthur Askey. In 1957 a local pop group called The Quarrymen appeared...

family mausoleum inscribed with the family motto "Thincke and Thancke" Vesta Tilley, born Matilda Alice Powles, a male impersonator who was a star in both...

1916 British silent war film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Vesta Tilley, Sydney Folker and James Lindsay. It was made at Isleworth Studios. During...

artists of this era included William Payne, his sons, the Payne Brothers, Vesta Tilley, Dan Leno, Herbert Campbell, Little Tich, Clarice Mayne, Dorothy Ward...

music hall song composed by Harry B. Norris in 1900 and notably sung by Vesta Tilley. It concerns an aristocratic young idler who pursues a life of leisure...

popular and widespread; influential performers included male impersonator Vesta Tilley and comic Little Tich. The most successful playwright of the era was...

(1956) then did another for Romulus, After the Ball (1957), a biopic of Vesta Tilley, in which Harvey played Walter de Frece. He followed it with The Truth...

another benefit performance at the Crown Theatre in Peckham. Kate Carney, Vesta Tilley and Joe Elvin were among the star turns who performed before the main...

music hall stars included: Marie Lloyd, Harry Champion, George Formby, Vesta Tilley, Gus Elen, Little Tich, Gracie Fields and Flanagan and Allen. Musical...

a 50 seat studio space, The Vesta Tilley Studio, named after Music Hall star and Worcester born performer, Vesta Tilley. Since the opening of the theatre...