Light comedy star, on stage at the Wood Green Empire from the age of eleven. Best known on screen as 'Squibs' in a series for Gaumont/Welsh-Pearson. Like Chaplin, she was prone to mix comedy with pathos.
Her professional partnership with George Pearson ended when she rejected his
offer of marriage.
A great mimic she started in British Music Hall
Made her stage debut in 1914 at the Court Theatre becoming one of C. B.
Cochran's stars.
In addition to being the most important internationally recognised British star of the silent screen, she also made a reputation in German and French films between 1927 and 1929.