1. Maidie Andrews was an English actress and singer who, with a career that spanned six decades, was a child actress and later a stage beauty who appeared in musical comedy including the original London productions of No, No, Nanette and Cavalcade.
14 Facts About Maidie Andrews
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Maidie Andrews was born in Camden Town in London in 1893, the only daughter and second eldest of four children of Ada Harriet nee Judd and Walter Andrews, variously a furniture remover, a horsebus inspector and a refreshment attendant.
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Maidie Andrews's younger brother Robert Andrews, born as Reginald Frank Andrews, was a British child actor and later a stage and film actor.
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Maidie Andrews is perhaps best known as the long-term partner of Ivor Novello.
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Maidie Andrews was Cissie, one of the Babes in the pantomime Babes in the Wood opposite Phyllis Dare as Charley at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, while in July 1905 she was Little Joan in Where the Crows Gathered at the Criterion Theatre.
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Maidie Andrews reprised the role of Alice in the children's musical Alice in Wonderland opposite Alice Barth as the Duchess and the Red Queen at the Apollo Theatre in London.
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Maidie Andrews was Sue Smith in the original London production of No, No, Nanette opposite Binnie Hale and George Grossmith Jr.
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Maidie Andrews played the maid Rose in the original West End production of Coward's musical play Conversation Piece opposite Coward and Yvonne Printemps at His Majesty's Theatre and afterwards at the 44th Street Theatre on Broadway, and was the La Marquise De Sauriole in the original Broadway production of Coward's musical revue Set to Music at the Music Box Theatre.
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Maidie Andrews was Mrs Stirling in Noel Coward's musical Pacific 1860 opposite Mary Martin and Graham Payn.
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Maidie Andrews played the drama teacher Monica Stevens in Ivor Novello's last musical Gay's the Word opposite Cicely Courtneidge and Thorley Walters at the Saville Theatre in London.
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Maidie Andrews was La Toulouse in the musical Wedding in Paris opposite Anton Walbrook and Evelyn Laye at the London Hippodrome.
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Maidie Andrews was Bonita Belgrave in the original production of Noel Coward's Waiting in the Wings opposite Sybil Thorndike and Marie Lohr and a cast of elderly actresses which premiered in Dublin on 8 August 1960 at the Olympia Theatre, and in the West End at the Duke of York's Theatre on 7 September 1960 before going on a national tour.
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Maidie Andrews was Miss Trebelly in the film Symphony in Two Flats opposite Ivor Novello.
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Maidie Andrews spent her last years living in the family home of 37 St Mary's Mansions, St Mary's Terrace in Kensington.