Lily elsie rachel weisz biography

          She was born Elsie Hodder in Leeds in Her mother (Charlotte) Elizabeth Hodder was an unmarried dressmaker.!



          Miss Lily Elsie (1886 - 1962)



          Intruduction.
          Miss Lily Elsie made her name on the opening night of The Merry Widow, in London, on 8th June 1907.

          Lily Elsie was an English actress and singer in the early s.

           Overnight she had the town at her feet.  On the stage Elsie seemed mysteriously beautiful with her perfect Grecian profile, enormous blue eyes, and hauntingly sad smile.  Tall, cool, and lily-like, she moved with lyrical gestures in a slow-motion grace.

          She was a true 'star' of Edwardian times, although the word was yet to be used in that context.

           Magazines produced special supplements about her, adverts featured her picture.

          Although her fame and fortune came entirely from public appearances she was painfully shy.

          Lily Elsie is frequently referred to as Rachel Weisz's doppelgänger and although they don't look exactly alike (they had different eye colours + Rachel has.

        1. Lily Elsie is frequently referred to as Rachel Weisz's doppelgänger and although they don't look exactly alike (they had different eye colours + Rachel has.
        2. Elsie Cotton (née Hodder, 8 April – 16 December ), known professionally as Lily Elsie, was an English actress and singer during the Edwardian era.
        3. She was born Elsie Hodder in Leeds in Her mother (Charlotte) Elizabeth Hodder was an unmarried dressmaker.
        4. Lily Elsie (), one of the great beauties of the Edwardian world, and a woman who was called the most photographed woman of her time.
        5. I was born in in Málaga (Spain), city in which my childhood went by in the company of my sister Victoria, my parents and my grandmother.

          6.  After just a few years on the stage she retired to a quite life away from the public eye.  She did however leave us with hundreds of pictures, a few gramophone discs, and two films, to remember her by.

          Biography.
          Born Elsie Hodder on 8th April 1886 in the Armley district of L