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Da allora si esibì in molti teatri, interpretò Phoebe in Billee Taylor, composta da Edward Solomon, i due si conobbero e sposarono nel 1884, un anno dopo ebbero una figlia, Dorothy Lillian Russell. Al Broadway theatre nel dicembre 1881 è Bathilde in Olivette di Edmond Audran e nel 1883 Prinz Methusalem di Johann Strauss (figlio) .
Inizio carriera. Lillian Russell è nata a Clinton, nell’ Iowa, ma è cresciuta a Chicago. I suoi genitori si separarono quando lei aveva 18 anni e si trasferì a New York con la madre, la scrittrice e femminista Cynthia Leonard, prima donna a candidarsi a sindaco di New York.
Relatives. Cynthia Leonard (mother) Lillian Russell (born Helen Louise Leonard; December 4, 1860 or 1861 [1] – June 6, 1922) was an American actress and singer. She became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, praised for her beauty and style, as well as for her voice and stage presence.
5 apr 2024 · Lillian Russell (born Dec. 4, 1861, Clinton, Iowa, U.S.—died June 6, 1922, Pittsburgh, Pa.) was an American singer and actress in light comedies who represented the feminine ideal of her generation. She was as famous for her flamboyant personal life as for her beauty and voice.
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Lillian Russell was an American actress and singer. She became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her beauty and style, as well as for her voice and stage presence. Russell was born in Clinton, Iowa, but raised in Chicago. Her parents separated when she was 18, and she moved to New York with her mother. She began to perform ...
5 apr 2020 · Lillian Russell – or what she represented – has been portrayed on stage and film a number of times. A London rewrite of Sally (1942) managed to introduce her into the proceedings in the person of the buxom Linda Gray (soon after to be Queen Elizabeth I in Merrie England and later London’s Domina in A Funny Thing …), but Hollywood devoted an entire 1940 film to her in which she was ...
16 apr 2020 · In this History at Home video, Heinz History Center senior curator Leslie Przybylek shares a women's history moment about Lillian Russell, an American actres...
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