Actress. Stage name of Queenie Leighton. Sometimes used the name of Lillie/Lilian Leighton. Lilian Caroline Rickard/George was born in Auroraville, Wisconsin, USA, on July 18, 1872. She was the daughter of Dorothy Gerard/George and she moved to England as a young child. Screen credits include Polly Piecan in Screen Struck (1916) and Under the Greenwood Tree (1929).
She married Lieutenant Frederick Charles Cockerill, at Fulham Registry Office, England, on 27 October 1915.
She died on November 19, 1943, in Farnworth, Lancashire, UK.
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“Principal Boys”
Many elderly playgoers will have their memories stirred a little by the news of the death of Queenie Leighton, the most popular “principal boy” of her time in Drury Lane pantomime. She held that position for five years, then was a minor star in provincial tours, then dwindled into small parts in film work. She died at Farnworth, near Bolton. In her early days she was one of the tall, handsome showgirls of George Edwardes’s Gaiety chorus. Constance Collier was another of that shapely company, but her talents took her away into the drama and she became Tree’s leading lady.
Only one of the notable eminent principal boys of the first quarter of this century survives, but she was not of those massive Rosalinds that English pantomime alone of the world’s entertainments contrived to produce. She was the cleverest and gayest of them all: Vesta Tilley (Lady de Frece), who first appeared in Drury Lane in pantomime in 1882.
~The Guardian, London, England, Sat., 27 Nov 1943
She married Lieutenant Frederick Charles Cockerill, at Fulham Registry Office, England, on 27 October 1915.
She died on November 19, 1943, in Farnworth, Lancashire, UK.
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“Principal Boys”
Many elderly playgoers will have their memories stirred a little by the news of the death of Queenie Leighton, the most popular “principal boy” of her time in Drury Lane pantomime. She held that position for five years, then was a minor star in provincial tours, then dwindled into small parts in film work. She died at Farnworth, near Bolton. In her early days she was one of the tall, handsome showgirls of George Edwardes’s Gaiety chorus. Constance Collier was another of that shapely company, but her talents took her away into the drama and she became Tree’s leading lady.
Only one of the notable eminent principal boys of the first quarter of this century survives, but she was not of those massive Rosalinds that English pantomime alone of the world’s entertainments contrived to produce. She was the cleverest and gayest of them all: Vesta Tilley (Lady de Frece), who first appeared in Drury Lane in pantomime in 1882.
~The Guardian, London, England, Sat., 27 Nov 1943
Actress. Stage name of Queenie Leighton. Sometimes used the name of Lillie/Lilian Leighton. Lilian Caroline Rickard/George was born in Auroraville, Wisconsin, USA, on July 18, 1872. She was the daughter of Dorothy Gerard/George and she moved to England as a young child. Screen credits include Polly Piecan in Screen Struck (1916) and Under the Greenwood Tree (1929).
She married Lieutenant Frederick Charles Cockerill, at Fulham Registry Office, England, on 27 October 1915.
She died on November 19, 1943, in Farnworth, Lancashire, UK.
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“Principal Boys”
Many elderly playgoers will have their memories stirred a little by the news of the death of Queenie Leighton, the most popular “principal boy” of her time in Drury Lane pantomime. She held that position for five years, then was a minor star in provincial tours, then dwindled into small parts in film work. She died at Farnworth, near Bolton. In her early days she was one of the tall, handsome showgirls of George Edwardes’s Gaiety chorus. Constance Collier was another of that shapely company, but her talents took her away into the drama and she became Tree’s leading lady.
Only one of the notable eminent principal boys of the first quarter of this century survives, but she was not of those massive Rosalinds that English pantomime alone of the world’s entertainments contrived to produce. She was the cleverest and gayest of them all: Vesta Tilley (Lady de Frece), who first appeared in Drury Lane in pantomime in 1882.
~The Guardian, London, England, Sat., 27 Nov 1943
She married Lieutenant Frederick Charles Cockerill, at Fulham Registry Office, England, on 27 October 1915.
She died on November 19, 1943, in Farnworth, Lancashire, UK.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“Principal Boys”
Many elderly playgoers will have their memories stirred a little by the news of the death of Queenie Leighton, the most popular “principal boy” of her time in Drury Lane pantomime. She held that position for five years, then was a minor star in provincial tours, then dwindled into small parts in film work. She died at Farnworth, near Bolton. In her early days she was one of the tall, handsome showgirls of George Edwardes’s Gaiety chorus. Constance Collier was another of that shapely company, but her talents took her away into the drama and she became Tree’s leading lady.
Only one of the notable eminent principal boys of the first quarter of this century survives, but she was not of those massive Rosalinds that English pantomime alone of the world’s entertainments contrived to produce. She was the cleverest and gayest of them all: Vesta Tilley (Lady de Frece), who first appeared in Drury Lane in pantomime in 1882.
~The Guardian, London, England, Sat., 27 Nov 1943
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