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Gertie Millar, born Gertrude Millar, married name Gertrude Ward, Countess of Dudley (Manningham, 21 February 1879 - Chiddingfold, 25 April 1952), was an English actress and singer.
Gertie Millar was born on 20 February 1879 in Manningham, Bradford, as Gertrude Miller. She made her debut at a very young age in a children's show and was the star of operettas and musical comedy in the Edwardian period. Her early career coincided with the rise of this new form of entertainment supported by George Edwardes, the manager of London's Gaiety Theatre and Daly's Theatres. From 1901 to 1910 Gertie Millar was a prima donna at London's Gaiety Theatre, starring in a series of musicals composed for her by the couple formed by her husband, Lionel Monckton, a former lawyer and theatre critic, and Ivan Caryll.
Her stage performances include: Lily in the play Babes in the Wood (St James's Theatre, Manchester, 1892); Phyllis Crosby in the musical comedy A Game of Cards (Shodfriars Hall, Boston, 1897); Dora in The New Barmaid (UK tour, 1898); The Silver Lining (UK tour, 1898); Sadie Pinkhose in The Lady Detective (UK tour, 1898); Dandini in Cinderella (Grand Theatre, Fulham, London, 1899); Isabel Blyth in the musical The Messenger Boy (Gaiety Theatre Tour, 1900); Bridesmaid Cora in The Toreador with 675 performances (Gaiety Theatre Tour, 1901); Violet Anstruther in The Orchid (Gaiety Theatre, 1903); Rosalie in The Spring Chicken (Gaiety Theatre, 1905); Lally in The New Aladdin (Gaiety Theatre, 1906); Mitzi, the innkeeper's daughter in The Girls of Gottenberg (Gaiety Theatre, 1907 and Broadway in 1908); Franzi in A Waltz dream (Hicks Theater, 1908); Mary Gibbs in Our Miss Gibbs (Gaiety Theatre, 1909); Prudence Pym in The Quaker Girl (Adelphi Theatre, London, 1910); Lady Babby in the operetta Gipsy Love (Daly's Theatre, 1912); Nancy Joyce in The Dancing Mistress (Adelphi, 1912); The Marriage Market (Daly's, 1912); Nan in The Country Girl (Daly's, 1914); as the magazine became more popular, Millar appeared at the Palace Theatre in Monckton's plays, Bric a Brac (1915); Houp-La (1916); Airs and Graces (1917) and Flora (1918). Among the songs that made her famous are Keep Off the Grass, from The Toreador (1901), Berlin Is On The Spree, from The Girls of Gottenberg (1907) and Moonstruck from Our Miss Gibbs (1909), while her performances include Our Miss Gibbs (1909), and The Quaker Girl (1910).
According to IMDB, in 1914 Millar also played her only film role as Sallie Denbigh in the film adaptation of The House of Bondage (1914), directed by Pierce Kingsley and Raymond B. West, produced by the Photo Drama Company, based on the novel by Reginald Wright Kauffman, and starring Lottie Pickford, as a young rebellious girl led into prostitution. Yet, the Library of Congress mentions the actress in the film as Miller instead of Millar, so this may refer to somebody else. Apart from Millar's performance in Broadway, nothing is known about any additional work in the US and it would be strange for such a musical star to travel to the US to play a small supporting part in an American production. Instead, in 1912 a Gertrude Miller played a child in the American film, A Western Child's Heroism. Maybe this was the same Miller? NB, The House of Bondage was performed in 1908-09 in London as a stage play, and directed by Herbert Beerbohm Tree, but without Gertie Millar.
Millar continued to perform during the First World War and retired from the stage in 1918. Edwardes had died three years earlier, Monckton's style no longer shone as brightly as in the past, and Millar was considered a star of the earlier Edwardian period, and new stars were emerging to cater to the new tastes of the post-war generation. Her marriage to Monckton was not a happy one and she even asked for a divorce, but Lionel refused to grant it, and only after Monckton's death in 1924 did she remarry William Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley, becoming the Countess of Dudley. Gertie Millar died on 25 April 1952 in Chiddingfold, Surrey, UK.
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