Biografia

She is the first actress to appear in the film L'ora più bella (2016) which was made 124 years after she born and 21 years after she died. They used archive footage.

While rehearsing the role of Eliza Doolittle for a production of "Pygmalion" at RADA, the play's writer, George Bernard Shaw, visited and gave her advice that would help her in her subsequent career: 'Go out into the Old Kent Road and just listen to the women talking'.

Gave 1898 as her birth year throughout her career, it was not until just before her 100th birthday that she publicly admitted her real age.

She always pretended to be six years younger than her age, but in 1992 she owned up to reaching 100 and received her telegram from the Queen.

Lived with her husband, who worked for the Western Telegraph Company, in Argentina and Madeira for eight years, only returning to Britain when he became unemployed in the mid-1920's. It was then that she made her stage début, playing Mrs Judd in "The Constant Flirt", at the Pier Theatre, Eastbourne, in 1926.