Marjorie Bellairs

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Marjorie Bellairs ()[] was a British actress

Born Emily R. Woodward

Biography

She married fellow actor James Bromley-Challenor (1884–1935)[1], .

She and her husband are said to have appeared in the farce When Knights were Bold over 6000 times over the course of his lifetime.

She died in Bolton, Lancashire, in 1960.

Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance

In 1915 or 1916 they took the James Bromley-Challenor theatrical company on a tour of South Africa, the cast including her husband, herself, and Norah Sturdee.

Sources

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0149977/bio

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0149977/

E-mail correspondence with Nick Jackson about Norah Sturdee and the South African tour (1 May 2020).

http://www.robertbuchanan.co.uk/html/knightsrev2.html

Obituary, The Argus, Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, 19 Dec 1935: p.12

J.P. Wearing. 2014. The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel, Rowman & Littlefield: p.5 [2]

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.

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