Laura Joyce Bell
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Laura Joyce Bell was an English-American actress and contralto singer mostly associated with Edwardian musical comedy and light opera.
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Sam Weller (character)
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Sam Weller is a fictional character in The Pickwick Papers, the first novel by Charles Dickens, and the character that made Dickens famous. A humorous Cockney bootblack, Sam Weller first appeared in t
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…the strong-willed mother-in law of Dr. Willow (Digby Bell) in Thomas's play The Hoosier Doctor. In 1903, she was with her husband as Mrs Bardell and Sam Weller in the long run of Mr. Pickwick (from the Charles Dickens novel, The Pickwick Papers) at the Herald Square Theatre (also starring De Wolf Hopper) and…
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Mr Pickwick encounters Sam Weller - illustration by Hablot Knight Browne for The Pickwick Papers (July 1836)
Sam Weller woos Mary - in a postcard of 1903
Sam Weller and the Fat Boy - Gilbert Scott Wright (1909)