Violet Loraine

Violet Loraine (26 July 1886 – 18 July 1956) was an English musical theatre actress and singer. She was born Violet Mary Tipton in Kentish Town, London, in 1886 and went on the stage as a chorus girl at the age of sixteen. Her rise to fame came in April 1916 at the Alhambra Theatre in the musical/revue The Bing Boys Are Here. She was given the leading female part, Emma, opposite George Robey playing Lucius Bing. It became one of the most popular musicals of the World War I era.
==Links to Peel==
Peel played her track, 'When We've Wound Up The Watch On The Rhine', with Ambrose Thorne as part of the Peelenium 1914. No other tracks from the artist seem to have been played by Peel according to available tracklistings on this site.
She retired from the stage in 1921 but made a brief comeback in the early 1930s. She starred in the 1934 film Road House, which closes with a sequence in which she, accompanied by Geraldo' s orchestra and the Three Ginx, sings "What A Little Moonlight Can Do".
==Shows Played==
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*16 June 1999: When We've Wound Up The Watch On The Rhine (Peelenium 1914)
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
Category:Artists