Lillian Russell
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Lillian Russell was an American actress and singer. She became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, praised for her beauty and style, as well as for
Russell in 1898
in Patience, 1882
Russell in Giroflé-Girofla, 1890s
Russell with Frank Sheridan in the play Wildfire (1908)
Diamond Jim Brady
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James Buchanan Brady, also known as Diamond Jim Brady, was an American businessman, financier and philanthropist of the Gilded Age.
Lillian Russell
…returned to musical roles in vaudeville and retired from performing around 1919. Russell was married four times, but her longest relationship was with Diamond Jim Brady, who supported her extravagant lifestyle for four decades. In later years, she wrote a newspaper column, advocated women's suffrage, was a popular…
Diamond Jim Brady c. 1900