Autograph request
Postcard sent by Bray to Betty Bolton on 23rd November 1933 asking for her autograph.
Betty Bolton (7 January 1906 - 2 April 2005) was a British actress, beginning as a child star during World War I and continuing her career in the 1920s and 1930s. She was one of the first performers to appear on early British television.
Bolton made her debut in 1916, at the age of 10, in a revue called Some, at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. Gertrude Lawrence was the principal dancer. Bolton's mother Maud was a West End stage manager. 'Betty', as she was originally billed (no surname), played in several revues by Harry Grattan, such as Odds and Ends and Mind Your Backs during World War I, some of them produced by Andr Charlot, playing precocious children. Photographs from two of these revues, including Cheep (1917) and Back Again (1919), show her remarkable powers of facial expression. The last show in which she performed as a child was the musical fantasy Fifinella, in late 1919.
