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Billie Carleton
Billie Carleton (4 September 1896 – 28 November 1918) was an English musical comedy actress during the First World War. She began her professional stage career at age 15 and was playing roles in the West End by age 18. She appeared in the hit musical ''The Boy'' (1917), which led to a starring role in ''The Freedom of the Seas'' in 1918. At the age of 22, she was found dead, apparently of a drug overdose.
==Life and career==
Born Florence Leonora Stewart in Bloomsbury, London, daughter of a chorus singer named Margaret Stewart and an unknown father, Carleton was raised by her aunt, Catherine Joliffe.〔Hoare, Philip. ("Carleton, Billie (1896–1918)" ), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 31 January 2012〕 Carleton left home at 15 to work on the stage and received her first break when the impresario C. B. Cochran promoted her from the chorus to a role in his 1914 revue ''Watch your Step''. According to Cochran, despite having a weak voice, Carleton had a good stage presence, and her delicate beauty charmed the audience.〔Cochran, p. 209: "Despite her inexperience and her tiny voice, she pleased the audiences. A more beautiful creature has never fluttered upon a stage. She seemed scarcely human, so fragile was she".〕 When he was informed during the run of the show that Carleton was attending opium parties, Cochran fired her.〔 He gave her another chance in 1917, when she took over the leading role from Gertie Millar in his show ''Houp La!''〔 She made little impression in the part,〔 which she took on only a week before the show closed.〔"Theatres", The Times, 15 February 1917, p. 8 and 17 February 1917, p. 8〕
Carleton was soon appearing for André Charlot in another revue, ''Some More Samples!''〔 Although the critics again noted her weak voice,〔’’The Tatler’’, 26 September 1917, cited in Kohn, p. 74〕 she had better success in this, and was engaged for the part of Joy Chatterton, a flapper in the hit musical farce ''The Boy'' when it opened at the Adelphi Theatre in August 1917.〔 In May 1918 she appeared in ''Fair and Warmer'', this time playing a maid to Fay Compton's flapper.〔 Then in August she took the star part of Phyllis Harcourt in ''The Freedom of the Seas'' at the Haymarket Theatre, briefly becoming the youngest leading lady in the West End.〔
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