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Dorothy Dickson (1893-1995) was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and became a star of the London stage. She started her career in a ballroom dance act with her husband, Carl Hyson. They appeared on Broadway in Jerome Kern's Oh Boy (1917), two editions of Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies (1917-18) and George M. Cohan’s The Royal Vagabond (1919).
In 1921, the couple travelled to London to London to dance in Charles Cochran’s revue London, Paris & New York. Later that year, Dorothy Dickson starred in the London version of Kern's Sally, introducing to British audiences the song ‘Look for the Silver Lining’. Her enormous sucees led to a succession of other hit shows: The Cabaret Girl (1922) and The Beauty Prize (1923); the title role in London’s 1925 and 1926 productions of Peter Pan; Gershwin’s Tip Toes (1926), Rodgers & Hart’s Peggy Ann (1927), Hold Everything (1929), Wonder Bar (1930) and Casanova (1932). In 1935, she sang ‘Easter Parade’ in Irving Berlin’s Stop Press and, in the 1936 revue Spread It Abroad, she introduced ‘These Foolish Things’. She co-starred with Ivor Novello in his long-running hits Careless Rapture (1936) and Crest of the Wave (1937).
During the Second World War, she appeared in several popular revues and organised the London Stage Door Canteen, a night club where stars provided free entertainment for allied troops. After the war, her stage career continued in non-musical comedies. In her last show, she appeared with Jack Buchanan in As Long As They’re Happy (1953).
After one of her performances in the 1920s, she was introduced to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, who was to become Britain’s Queen and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II. They became friends and the friendship of the Queen Mum, as she became, and Dorothy Dickson was to continue for some 75 years - both women becoming centenarians.
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Theatre: Programs (UK) - pre 1940 | CREST OF THE WAVE (by Ivor Novello) with IVOR NOVELLO & MARIE LOHR |
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Theatre: Programs - Signed | TOUCH WOOD (by C. L. Anthony) - program signed by DOROTHY HYSON |
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