Maisie Gay
Maisie Gay (born Maud Daisy Noble, 7 January 1878 – 13 September 1945), was an English actress and singer known for comic character roles in Edwardian musical comedies, including several by James T. Tanner, and in works by Noël Coward and musical film adaptations of Edgar Wallace plays.
Early life
Career
Gay first appeared on stage in 1903 as a chorus girl. She soon rose to more prominent roles, and from 1904 to 1907 she toured the British provinces as Nan, the title role in the musical A Country Girl, with a book by James T. Tanner.[1] She made her West End debut in A Waltz King in 1908, and followed that with a role in The Girls of Gottenberg. After a successful run in Tanner's Our Miss Gibbs, Gay toured the United States in another Tanner show, The Quaker Girl. She returned to London to appear in a fourth show with a book by Tanner, The Girl on the Film, in 1913. Gay remained active on the stage in both London and New York, in musicals and revues, during World War I, especially in a US tour of Arthur Hammerstein's High Jinks in 1914 and 1915.[2] She was often in works by Noël Coward, including London Calling! (1923, produced by André Charlot), and This Year of Grace (1928–1929, on tour in Australia).[3]
Personal life
References
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedSharp - ↑ "High Jinks a Scream", Salinas Daily Union (28 January 1915), p. 8, via Newspapers.com
- ↑ "Return of Maisie Gay", The Age (23 April 1929), p. 9, via Newspapers.com
External links
- Maisie Gay at IMDb
- Maisie Gay listing at IBDb
- Maisie Gay listing on AllMusic.com
- A cigarette card photo of Maisie Gay, from the New York Public Library Digital Collections