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Portrait of Langtry by Frank Miles, before 1891. Born in 1853 and known as Lillie from childhood, she was the daughter of the Very Reverend William Corbet Le Breton and his wife, Emilie Davis (née Martin), a recognised beauty. [5]
Lillie is a British television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV and broadcast from 24 September to 17 December 1978. [1] This period serial stars Francesca Annis in the title role of Lillie Langtry. She had played the same character in the 1975 ATV series Edward the Seventh and many of its writers and directors helped to create ...
Edward Langtry (1847–1897) married Emilie Charlotte Le Breton on the island of Jersey in 1874. She later took to the stage as actress Lillie Langtry, and became involved in a relationship with Edward, Prince of Wales. Langtry and his wife eventually separated and she obtained a divorce in 1897.
The Lillie Langtry necklace, made by Hancocks & Co. and given by King Edward VII to his mistress of the same name, is returning home to London after “an extraordinary journey around the world ...
Langtry and Leslie T. Peacocke in scene. His Neighbor's Wife is a 1913 silent short film directed by Edwin S. Porter and starring Victorian actress and celebrity Lillie Langtry in her only feature screen appearance. [1] [2] It was produced by Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company and distributed on a State's Rights basis. [3]
Lillie (1978), Tommy Duggan played the role in this British miniseries biopic of Lillie Langtry. In the Fantasy Island episode "Legends" (1982), Bean was played by Andy Griffith. The Gambler: The Luck of the Draw (1991), a television movie starring Kenny Rogers and Reba McEntire, features Brad Sullivan as Judge Roy Bean.
Frederick Gebhard (July 11, 1860 – September 5, 1910) was a wealthy New Yorker who at the age of 22 became infatuated with Lillie Langtry, a renowned beauty, who had been elevated to celebrity status following her affair with Edward, Prince of Wales. A relationship developed between Gebhard and Langtry that lasted nine years.
The celebrity endorsement is as old as time — or since 1882, at least, when a glycerin soap producer enlisted stage actress Lillie Langtry to tell fans how much she preferred Pears “to all ...