20 Facts About Daisy Burrell

Daisy Burrell had a complicated family history, marred by early deaths.

Daisy Burrell's grandfather, Charles George Ratton, was a stockbroker from an Anglo-Portuguese Roman Catholic family.

Daisy Burrell had a career as a singer, using the stage name of Harry Saunders, and at the time of the 1901 census the Burrell family was in Willesden, using the name Saunders, apart from Daisy, whose name was given as Ratton.

Daisy Burrell was licensee of the Swan Hotel, Hythe, during the First World War.

In 1939, Henry and Ethel Daisy Burrell were living at 77, Castle Road, Hythe, with their daughter Edwina.

Daisy Burrell went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music, and in 1909 played the part of Youth in Give Heed, a modern morality play by Blanche G Vulliamy, performed by students of the Guildhall School at the Court Theatre.

On leaving, Daisy Burrell went into pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and in 1910 The Illustrated London News noted her appearing as Cinderella at the new Palladium.

Daisy Burrell first came to wide attention the same year, appearing at the Vaudeville Theatre in The Girl in the Train.

Daisy Burrell played a boy, David Playne, in the original cast of Lonsdale, Unger, and Rubens's new musical Betty, which opened at the Prince's Theatre, Manchester on Christmas Eve, 1914, and transferred to Daly's Theatre in the West End on 24 April 1915.

In 1919, Daisy Burrell filed a petition for the restitution of conjugal rights, and in 1920 she petitioned for a divorce.

Daisy Burrell was offered the part after Samuelson saw her playing Cinderella at the London Palladium, in a production by his brother Julian Wylie, who was Burrell's agent.

In Little Women, directed by Alexander Butler, Daisy Burrell played Amy, the youngest of the four girls.

In November 1919, Daisy Burrell wrote an article for the weekly The Picture Show, in which she gave "a few hints for cinema stars".

Daisy Burrell advised that to work in films, an actor should be able to ride a horse, swim, shoot, fake a drowning, and play billiards, cards, and the piano.

Daisy Burrell noted her own aim that "In every film, I should finish as a bride" and warned that:.

In 1920 Burrell returned to pantomime in the title role of Julian Wylie and James W Tate's Cinderella at the Empire Theatre, Sheffield, continued in 1921 at the Empire, Cardiff, with Stanley Lupino.

In July 1924 Burrell joined a touring company for George M Cohan's musical Little Nellie Kelly, playing the lead part of Nellie.

Daisy Burrell later appeared on BBC Television in The Perfect Alibi and in The Golden Year, the first musical comedy produced for television, and disappeared from the performing record again after that.

At the time of the High Court challenge to her second husband's will in 1961, Daisy Burrell was living at the De Vere Court Hotel, 32 De Vere Gardens, Kensington.

Daisy Burrell ended her long life living at Flat 203, Nell Gwynn House, Sloane Avenue, London SW3.