Fanny Addison Pitt ( Addison; December 1847 – 7 January 1937), also known as Mrs. Henry Mader Pitt, was an English actress.

Life

Born in December 1847, in

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, Fanny was the eldest daughter of comedian Edward Phillips Addison and sister of actress

Carlotta Addison Carlotta Addison (July 1849 – 1914) was an English actress. Stage appearances included leading roles in original productions of plays by T. W. Robertson, W. S. Gilbert, H. J. Byron and Arthur Wing Pinero. Life Addison was born in Liverpool in ...

. She appeared in 1867 in the

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in London. The next year, she was at the

Queen's Theatre, Long Acre The Queen's Theatre was a London theatre established in 1867 on the site of St Martin's Hall, a large concert room that had opened in 1850. It stood on the corner of Long Acre (formerly Charles Street) and Endell Street, with entrances in Wilso ...

in ''

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'' by

W. S. Gilbert Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas. The most fam ...

. In 1870, she played Lady Psyche in Gilbert's '' The Princess''. In 1881, she performed in

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. She died on 7 January 1937.

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* *left-to-right: Fanny Addison Pitt, Sydney Cowell and

Ethel Barrymore Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe; August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors. Barrymore was a stage, screen and radio actress whose career spanned six decades, and was regarde ...

during dress rehearsal fo
Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, 1901
*Fanny A. Pitt, Sydney Cowell and Ethel Barrymore in the same scene (with

H. Reeves-Smith Harry Reeves-Smith (17 May 1862 – 29 January 1938) was an English born stage actor who achieved success in Broadway productions at the turn of the twentieth century. His father was G. Reeves-Smith, a manager of the Brighton Aquarium. Harry mad ...

) during the run o
Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines
1847 births 1937 deaths 19th-century English actresses Actresses from Birmingham, West Midlands English stage actresses {{UK-singer-stub