Sara Payson Willis
American author and journalist
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Gertrude Berg
American actress, screenwriter, and producer best known for her pioneering work in early television.
Maureen Potter
Irish variety artiste, comedian and actress
Jackie “Moms” Mabley
African-American stand-up comic and actor who was active in stage, television and films from the 1910s to 1970s. She was also one of the 20th century’s first openly queer comedians, coming out as a lesbian in 1921.
Elsie Waters
As ‘Gert and Daisy’, the Waters sisters became stalwarts of seaside variety shows, music halls, Royal Variety performances, and the occasional film, although radio was where they found a natural home and made their best work.
Doris Waters
As ‘Gert and Daisy’, the Waters sisters became stalwarts of seaside variety shows, music halls, Royal Variety performances, and the occasional film, although radio was where they found a natural home and made their best work.
Laura Bayley
Early comedic actress and director of the English film industry
Dorothea Jordan
“As an actress in comedy Dorothy Jordan can have had few equals, and no woman of the stage was ever more extravagantly praised by the eminent critics of her time.”
Ada Rehan
Irish-American actress of the late 1800s
Wendy Blacklock
Wendy Blacklock acted in some of the most iconic Australian television series of the 1970s, including Skippy, Homicide and Boney and also had a long-running role as ‘Mummy’ in the popular Australian television series Number 96 (1972-1977).