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    Catherine Clive (née Raftor; 5 November 1711 – 6 December 1785) Catherine ‘KittyClive (1711-1785, active 1728-1769) was a first songster and star comedienne...
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    1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 2000s including Fcb TV Show No.1 (1955), Kitty Clive (1956), Cinderella (1958), David and Broccoli (1960), Candida (1961)...
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    of the family, which could trace its involvement in theatre back to Kitty Clive, and trained as an actor at the Italia Conti School. He went on to play...
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  • 1740 the hugely successful Kitty Clive appeared as Rosamond at Drury Lane in Thomas Arne's opera of the same name. Clive had assisted her and she became...
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    Palmer as Modely, William O'Brien as Belmour, Mary Ann Yates as Araminta, Kitty Clive as Lady Beverly and Susannah Maria Cibber as Celia. Watson p.861 Baines...
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    Berta (2006). "Handel at Drury Lane: Ballad Opera and the Production of Kitty Clive". Journal of the Royal Musical Association. 131 (2): 179–226. doi:10...
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    also a ballad opera. First performed at Drury Lane in 1735, starring Kitty Clive and Charles Macklin, A Cure for a Scold was an adaptation of Lacy's Sauny...
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    1716) November 25 – Richard Glover, English poet (b. 1712) December 6 – Kitty Clive, English actress, playwright (b. 1711) December 29 – Johan Herman Wessel...
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    The Private Life of Don Juan Pepilla uncredited 1935 Peg of Old Drury Kitty Clive 1936 Things to Come Roxana/Rowena as Margueretta Scott 1937 Much Ado...
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    of Handel's operas, the bass Thomas Rheinhold and two other sopranos, Kitty Clive and Miss Edwards. The first performance was overshadowed by views expressed...
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  • Viola in Twelfth Night, a play not performed for more than 70 years. Kitty Clive plays Olivia. Mrs Pritchard's Rosalind (As You Like It) remains in the...
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    Drury Lane. The play's cast also included the stars Hannah Pritchard and Kitty Clive. She also appeared in Ireland, where her Lady Townley (in The Provoked...
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  • Winstone as Gaylove, Theophilus Cibber as Cibber, a Comedian and Kitty Clive as Miss Kitty. The role of the poet played by Macklin was apparently intended...
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  • included William Mills as Aristarchus, Theophilus Cibber as Philander, Kitty Clive as Urania and Charlotte Charke as Thalia. Burling p.144 Baines, Paul...
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    Westminster in 1796, was said to have tartly refused the request for actress Kitty Clive to be buried in the Abbey: if we do not draw some line in this theatrical...
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  • The original Drury Lane cast included Roger Bridgewater as Pierrot, Kitty Clive as Mercury, Henry Norris as Plutus and Christiana Horton as Eucharis...
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    Samuel Scott lived at No. 2, overlooking the Piazza. In 1761, the actress Kitty Clive lived in the street. In 1814, Jane Austen visited her brother Henry at...
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    (1928) A March Hare (1877) Moth and Flame (1878) The Mayflower (1892) Kitty Clive, Actress (1895) Diary of an Irish Cabinet Minister(1893) The Viceroy...
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    Wellford, Thomas King as Sharply and Hannah Pritchard as Mrs Etherdown, Kitty Clive as Mrs Friendly. It was one of only two new mainpieces debuting at Drury...
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    frailty of the mind 17 March 1740 Drury Lane Theatre, London Sung by Mrs. Kitty Clive at her benefit performance of William Congreve's The Way of the World...
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    Bleeck is especially known for theatrical subjects such as Owen Swiny, Kitty Clive and Margaret Woffington, but he also worked on other subjects such as...
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    1740 Conductor: Thomas Arne Alfred tenor Thomas Lowe Emma/Venus soprano Kitty Clive Spirit/Pallas/Paris mezzo-soprano Susannah Maria Cibber Bard/Mercury...
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  • children's writer Caroline Clive (wrote as "V", 1801–1872), novelist and poet John Clive (1933–2012), novelist and actor Kitty Clive (born Catherine Raftor...
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  • Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom Giacomo Casanova – La Moluccheide Kitty Clive – The Rehearsal Samuel Foote – The Englishman in Paris Richard Glover...
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  • Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian writer and polymath (died 1765) December 6 – Kitty Clive, English actress and writer of farce (died 1785) unknown date – William...
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    Owen Cambridge (1717–1802), poet, lived at Cambridge House, Twickenham. Kitty Clive (1711–1785), actress, who retired in 1769 to a villa in Twickenham that...
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  • Green as the Attendant and Thomas Mozeen as Curtius. The epilogue was by Kitty Clive. Kahan p.28 Kahan, Jeffrey. Shakespeare Imitations, Parodies and Forgeries...
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  • and Adventures of Peter Wilkins Sarah Scott – The History of Cornelia Kitty Clive – The Rehearsal, or, Bays in Petticoats Carlo Goldoni La Bottega di Caffe...
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  • Cleveland (living, United States) Lucy Clifford (1846–1929, England) Kitty Clive (1711–1785, England) Aston Cockayne (1608–1684, England) Catharine Trotter...
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    suggested, from a terracotta by Michael Rysbrack. A pair of Bow figures of Kitty Clive and Henry Woodward as "the Fine Lady" and 'the Fine Gentleman" in David...
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