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Lillian Lorraine

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Actor 1892–1955 On stage 19081922

Lillian Lorraine (née Jacques; 1892/1894 – April 17, 1955) was an American stage and screen actress of the 1910s and 1920s, and a prominent Ziegfeld Girl in the Broadway revues Ziegfeld Follies during the 1910s.

On stage 11 productions, 14 years

1908 Miss Innocence New York Theatre · Original 176 perf.
1909 Ziegfeld Follies of 1909 Jardin De Paris · Original 64 perf.
1910 Ziegfeld Follies of 1910 Jardin De Paris · Original 88 perf.
1911 Ziegfeld Follies of 1911 Jardin De Paris · Original · directed by Julian Mitchell 80 perf.
1912 Over the River Globe Theatre · Original · directed by R.H. Burnside 120 perf.
1912 Ziegfeld Follies of 1912 Moulin Rouge · Original · directed by Julian Mitchell 88 perf.
1914 The Whirl of the World Winter Garden Theatre · Original · directed by William J. Wilson 161 perf.
1917 Odds and Ends of 1917 Bijou Theatre · Original · directed by Julian Alfred 112 perf.
1918 Ziegfeld Follies of 1918 New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Ned Wayburn 151 perf.
1919 The Little Blue Devil Central Theatre · Original · directed by Oscar Eagle 74 perf.
1922 The Blue Kitten Selwyn Theatre · Original · directed by Edgar Selwyn 140 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once12 names

Vonnie Hoyt 3 productions
Peter Swift 3 productions
Maurice Hegeman 3 productions
Lottie Vernon 3 productions
Harry Watson 3 productions
Elise Hamilton 3 productions
Bernard Granville 3 productions
Arline Boley 3 productions
Vera Maxwell 2 productions
The Dolly Sisters 2 productions
Selma Mantell 2 productions
Ruby Lewis 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 11 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

Also credited on1 work

Ziegfeld Follies

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In the literature6 passages

  • Cast: Marilyn Miller, Eddie Cantor, W. C. Fields, Will Rogers, Harry Kelly, Ann Pennington, Lillian Lorraine, Savoy & Brennan, Fairbanks Twinsebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Ziegfeld Follies (1918) . W.C. Fields, Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor, and Harry Kelly serenade Lillian Lorraine with “Any Old Time at All.” (White)ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Widowers” with little Helen Hayes, “The Ziegfeld Follies of 1910” with Lillian Lorraine, Bert Williams and Fannie Brice, Eddie Foy in “Up and Down Broadway,” Pauline Chase in “Our Miss Gibbs,” Sam Bernard in “He Came From Milwaukee,” “The Girl in the Train” with Vera Michelena,theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • Lillian Lorraine, George White and Vera Maxwell. Gaby Deslys, famous French musical comedy actress, made her American de‘but at the Winter Garden under the Shubert’s management in “The Revue of Revues” on September 27th. Two months later at the same house she appeared in “Vera Violetta.” The cast had many unMARYtheatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • was in “The Little Whopper,” Eddie Leonard with Queenie Smith in “Roly-Boly Eyes,” Charlotte Greenwood in “Linger Longer, Letty,” Lillian Lorraine in “The Little Blue Devil,” Marion Green in “Monsieur Beaucaire” and Frank McIntyre and Oscar Shaw in “The Rose of China.” Charles Ruggles, Edna Hibbard and Peggy O’Neil were in “Tumble In,” Jo…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • VICTOR MORLEY, JOSEPH CAWTHORN, MARION SUNSHINE, LILLIAN LORRAINE, ROBERT WOOLSEY, DOUGLAS STEVENSON in “THE BLUE KITTEN”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

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