Violet Loraine

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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.

Her duet with Robey "If You Were the Only Girl (in the World)" became a "signature song" of the era and endured as a pop standard.

She retired from the stage on her marriage on 22 September 1921 to Edward Raylton Joicey MC (1890–1955). They had two sons. Violet Mary Joicey died in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1956.

[edit] Sources

W. A. Darlington, ‘Loraine, Violet (1886–1956)’, rev. K. D. Reynolds, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 5 July 2006