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Daisy hancox and mona vivian sing two little bits of greece from as you were london 1918
Mona Vivian (1894–1971) was a popular English pantomime stage artist in the early years of the twentieth century.
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- Daisy hancox and mona vivian sing two little bits of greece from as you were london 1918
- Early life
- Acting career
- Personal life
- References
Early life
Mona Vivian was born Anne Mona Jessie Vivian in Aston, Warwickshire, some time between April and June 1894. Her mother was Anne Griffith, and Mona had numerous siblings. She began her stage career at a young age, performing as the character "Wee Mona".
Acting career
She performed in local pantomime, notably in Blackpool, performing as "Mona Vivian and her Blackpool Wavelets", where she sang of leaving half her tights on the flying trapeze, and swayed her hips in imitation of Mae West, saying "Say, don't anybody recognise the motions". She would tell a member of the orchestra that his name must be Nero because "I'm burning up - while he's fiddling".
In 1921 she made a recording with the London Hipprodrome Orchestra.
Personal life
In 1927 she married Hilton Crowther, the millionaire businessman and founder of Leeds Football Club. On Thursday 19 May "The Stage" newspaper reported that "The marriage took place on Monday at a registrars office in the West End of MONA VIVIAN and HILTON CROWTHER". The marriage was not a success and ended with a divorce settlement of around £1,000,000. She died in 1971.