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Bessie Bellwood
Bessie Bellwood
British entertainer
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Bessie Bonehill
Bessie Bonehill
English vaudeville performer
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Ada Reeve
Ada Reeve
British actor and singer
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Bessie Wentworth
Bessie Wentworth
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Dan Leno
Dan Leno
English music hall singer; comedian
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George Leybourne
George Leybourne
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Vesta Tilley
Vesta Tilley
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George Formby, Sr.
George Formby, Sr.
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Ada Blanche
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Hannah Chaplin
Hannah Chaplin
stage and musical actress
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Albert Chevalier
Albert Chevalier
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Letty Lind
Letty Lind
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Marie Lloyd
Marie Lloyd
English singer, comedian and actress (1870–1922)
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Harriet Vernon
Harriet Vernon
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Little Tich
Little Tich
English music hall comedian
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George Robey
George Robey
English music hall singer, film & theatre actor (1869-1954)
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Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
American blues singer
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Arthur Roberts
Arthur Roberts
English comedian, music hall entertainer and actor
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George H. Chirgwin
George H. Chirgwin
British music hall star
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Harry Champion
Harry Champion
British musician and comedian
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Charles Chaplin Sr.
Charles Chaplin Sr.
English music hall entertainer
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Daisy Wood
Daisy Wood
Music hall singer, sister of Marie Lloyd
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Kate Carney
Kate Carney
Music hall entertainer, singer, theatre operator
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Herbert Campbell
Herbert Campbell
English musical theatre actor
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Kerry Ellis
Kerry Ellis
English stage actress and singer
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Adrian Ross
Adrian Ross
British lyricist, playwright, and fiction writer
Jenny Hill
British music hall performer

Jenny Hill

Intro
British music hall performer
Genres
Music
Jenny Hill c.1885

Jenny Hill (1848 – 28 June 1896), born Elizabeth Jane Thompson, was an English music hall performer of the Victorian era known as "The Vital Spark" and "the Queen of the Halls". Her repertoire of songs included "'Arry", "The Boy I Love is Up in the Gallery", "The Little Vagabond Boy", "I've Been a Good Woman to You" and "If I Only Bossed the Show".

Hill made her stage début at an early age in a pantomime version of Mother Goose at the Aquarium Theatre in Westminster. After a difficult apprenticeship at a public house, she embarked on a career in music hall by 1868. She made a success at the London Pavilion, and until 1890 she was at the peak of her fame, enjoying top-billing at music halls across London and in the northern provinces. In 1879 she became the proprietor of her first music hall and later owned or operated several more, but without success.

By 1889 her health was declining, and she was forced to cancel a number of theatrical engagements. After a tour of New York in 1891, she returned to London where she made some appearances until 1894, but was mostly in poor health.