Jessie Smither (25 August 1885 – 20 October 1960), best known by her stage name Denise Orme, was an English music hall singer, actress and musician who appeared regularly at the Alhambra and Gaiety Theatres in London in the early years of the 20th century.
The only daughter of Alfred John Smither and Jessicah Henrietta Pococke, she studied at the Royal Academy of Music (where she won the Wessely Violin Exhibition in 1899) and later the Royal College of Music where she was 'discovered' as a singer by George Edwardes.
Her first stage appearance was in 1906 in the chorus of The Little Michus, later taking the role of Blanche Marie in that production. Later the same year, she appeared in the title role of See See at the Prince of Wales Theatre then appeared in The Merveilleuses into early 1907.
In 1906, she also participated in gramophone recordings of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado.
She married three times:
After the birth of their first daughter, she returned to the stage in The Hon'ble Phil in October 1908, and as Lady Elizabeth Thanet in Our Miss Gibbs at the Gaiety Theatre, London.
In 1928, Orme and Lord Churston divorced. She then married Theodore Wessell later the same year on 30 October, bearing one son. On 11 March 1946, she married Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster.