Lilian Braithwaite
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Dame Florence Lilian Braithwaite was an English actress, primarily of the stage, although she appeared in both silent and talkie films.
by Charles Sims
Lilian Braithwaite in 1921
Braithwaite in early 1900s
Braithwaite with Noël Coward, her co-star in The Vortex
Downhill (1927 film)
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Downhill is a 1927 British silent drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ivor Novello, Robin Irvine and Isabel Jeans, and based on the play Down Hill by Novello and Constance Collier. The f
Lilian Braithwaite
…greatest triumph was as the alcoholic mother in Noël Coward's ground-breaking drama The Vortex in 1924. She appeared in the 1927 Alfred Hitchcock film Downhill. Until then associated with tragic heroines, she proved that comedy was her greatest asset in a succession of drawing-room dramas and light comedies…
Downhill on cover of Kinematograph Weekly, no. 1046, vol. 123