1. Laddie Cliff died in 1937 after a period of ill health.
24 Facts About Laddie Cliff
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Laddie Cliff made his debut at New York's Colonial Theatre on 30 December 1907.
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Laddie Cliff was suffering from hoarseness and had to cut out some of his songs.
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Laddie Cliff did enough to prove that he is an exceptionally clever youngster.
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Laddie Cliff managed to talk and act two comic songs in a distinctly pleasing way, and as for his dancing, it completely brought down the house.
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Laddie Cliff has a terpsichorean method entirely original, and almost every eccentric move he made brought a hearty laugh.
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Laddie Cliff has a pleasing voice and he dances well.
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Laddie Cliff is grotesque as a dancer, unusual as a singer and quite inimitable in all ways.
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Laddie Cliff is back, with the springs in his legs still in tip-top order.
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Laddie Cliff has songs that are up to the minute, and a characteristic manner of delivering them that is more than half the battle.
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Laddie Cliff is in a "particularly pleasing bill" at the Victoria theatre and "scoring his usual success".
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Laddie Cliff, who came to this country as a boy comedian seven or eight years ago, has been a great favorite here and, in fact, is much better known in America than be is in England.
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Laddie Cliff's friends have known that he has felt very keenly the criticisms in some professional quarters regarding the number of English actors in this country, and although his associates explained that the criticisms were not directed against Englishmen who had become as Americanized as he, the young comedian felt that the best way to prove his love for his mother country was to fight for it.
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Laddie Cliff is really Clifford Albyn Cliff [sic], but he has always been called Laddie and assumed this name on the stage.
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Laddie Cliff's acclaimed "extraordinary dancing" as a bespectacled comic in the London musical Three Little Widows resulted in his being engaged to choreograph Andre Charlot's The Wild Geese and put him on the road to stardom.
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Laddie Cliff subsequently appeared in the revue Pins and Needles.
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Laddie Cliff is pictured on the original sheet music of the song.
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From 1921, Laddie Cliff collaborated with Phyllis Monkman on The Co-Optimists.
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Laddie Cliff subsequently became an acclaimed producer and director of several West End shows.
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Laddie Cliff choreographed George Gershwin's Primrose at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1924, working alongside George Grossmith who co-wrote the book, produced and staged the show.
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Laddie Cliff was onstage in So This Is Love at the time, and the burglary was discovered by Monkman.
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BURGLARY INSPIRES SONGThieves who broke into the St John's Wood home of Mr Laddie Cliff, who is playing in "So This Is Love" at the Winter Garden Theatre, inspired a new song for one of the actor's productions.
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Mr Laddie Cliff was at the theatre, and the burglary was discovered by Miss Phyllis Monkman, his wife, who found the door splintered opened and a jemmy nearby.
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Laddie Cliff had to leave the cast of Crazy Days at the Shaftesbury Theatre in September 1937, owing to illness and was replaced by Leo Franklyn.