May Beatty (4 June 1880–1 April 1945) was a New Zealand singer and stage and screen actress. She was born in
Christchurch
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, New Zealand, on 4 June 1880.
Biography
Beatty began her performing career at age seven, touring with
Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Company.
Her first performances in England were in 1908.
In 1923 she toured Australia with
Hugh J. Ward's company, performing in musical comedies.
Beatty was married to Edward Lauri
and had one daughter, Bonnie Beatty, a screen actress.
She died in Hollywood.
Partial filmography
* ''
Vanity Street'' (1932)
* ''
Horse Play'' (1933)
* ''
Rainbow Over Broadway'' (1933)
* ''
Our Betters'' (1933)
* ''
Love Is Dangerous'' (1933)
* ''
Mad Love __NOTOC__
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*''Mad Love'' (French ''L'amour fou''), collection of poems by André Breton
*'' The Batman Adventures: Mad Love'', an Eisner and Harvey award-winning comic by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm
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'' (1935)
* ''
Becky Sharp'' (1935)
* ''
The Widow from Monte Carlo
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'' (1935)
* ''
The Girl Who Came Back'' (1935)
* ''
Here Comes The Band'' (1935)
* ''
Little Lord Fauntleroy
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'' (1936)
* ''
Private Number'' (1936)
* ''
Lloyd's of London
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'' (1936)
* ''
If I Were King
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'' (1938)
* ''
I Am a Criminal
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'' (1938)
*
''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' (Mrs. Jameson) (1939)
References
External links
*
brief article on May Beatty as a Laurel & Hardy player
1880 births
1945 deaths
20th-century New Zealand women singers
New Zealand actresses
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