Bertha willmott biography of williams
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Bertha Willmott
British actress, singer and music hall performer
Bertha Mary Willmott (16 September 1894 – 3 June 1973)[1] was a British actress, comedienne, singer and music hall performer.
Bertha willmott biography of williams
She was born in West Ham in Essex in 1894, the second of four daughters of Henry Benjamin Willmott (1863 - 1929), an engine fitter, and his wife Bertha Vivian (1872-1953), who married in 1891.[2] When she was a girl at a London convent school the nuns encouraged and commenced her vocal training, which she continued at the London School of Music.
At age 14 she became well known in the provinces for her Irish songs in costume. During World War I she appeared in the revue Razzle-Dazzle which opened in June 1916 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane where it ran for 408 performances.[3] She spent much of her leisure singing for the soldiers.
While playing in the chorus at the Empire Theatre in Leicester Square in 1918 she met Reginald Thomas Bishop Seymour