Phyllis_Monkman

Phyllis Monkman

Phyllis Monkman

British actress

Phyllis Monkman (8 January 1892 – 2 December 1976) was a British stage and film actress.[1] She was married to the entertainer Laddie Cliff.

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In the early years of her career, she was often partnered on stage by Jack Buchanan and appeared in the silent film Her Heritage with him in 1919. She was also prominent in the cast of the revue The Co-Optimists and reprised her role in the film adaptation. After this point she was increasingly confined to supporting character parts. She appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 thriller Blackmail, widely considered the first British "talkie".[2] She was romantically linked to George VI.

Selected filmography

References

  1. [1]
    Moore p.56
  2. [2]
    "Blackmail (1929)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 31 December 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2023.

Bibliography

  • James Ross Moore. Andre Charlot: The Genius of Intimate Musical Revue. McFarland, 2005.


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