Blanche Stocker
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Blanche Eleanor Stocker (20 July 1884 – 1950) was a British actress and singer, who played minor roles in a string of Edwardian musical comedies and other stage works early in the 20th century. She also played a film role.
Life and career
Stocker was born in Bombay in India in 1884, the oldest of three children of a British couple, George Stocker (1857–1929), an engineer, and Mary Dunn née Johnston (1862–1946). While George remained in India for work, Mary returned to England with the children to live in London from at least 1891 to 1911.[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/2352/rg14_01209_0949_03/2384808?backurl=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/77013807/person/44354970290/facts/citation/302586302117/edit/record 1911 England Census for Blanche Stocker]: London, St Andrew Holborn above the Bars and St George the Martyr via Ancestry.com {{subscription}} Her younger sister Doris Stocker was also a singer and actress.
Stocker played roles in several Edwardian musical comedies early in her career, including Lucille in The Belle of Brittany at the Queen's Theatre (1908). For producer George Edwardes she was Lady Sybil Julia James in Our Miss Gibbs (1909);[https://theatricalia.com/play/2ae/our-miss-gibbs/production/5ex Cast of Our Miss Gibbs], Theatricalia, accessed 24 April 2020 Ethel in Peggy (1910);[https://summertime76.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/peggy-castba.jpg Programme for Peggy (1910)][https://theatricalia.com/play/2bq/peggy/production/5h5 Cast list for Peggy (1910) - Theatricalia website][https://gsarchive.net/british/peggy/index.html Information Peggy] (1910), British Musical Theatre pages at the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, accessed 24 April 2020 and Viola in The Girl on the Film (1913), all at the Gaiety Theatre in the West End of London; she also appeared in the latter work at the 44th Street Theatre on Broadway later in 1913.[https://www.broadwayworld.com/shows/The-Girl-on-the-Film-1534.html The Girl on the Film], broadwayworld.com, accessed 24 April 2020 She was Ruth Goldman/Miss Cohen in Potash and Perlmutter at the Queen's Theatre (1914–15); Lady-in-Waiting in Arlette at the Shaftesbury Theatre (1917);J. P. Wearing, [https://books.google.com/books?id=KMFnAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT610 The London Stage 1910–1919: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel], Rowman & Littlefield (2014) via Google Books and appeared as Goo Goo in The Bing Boys Are Here (1916)[https://theatricalia.com/play/2kb/the-bing-boys-are-here/production/5y5 Cast list for The Bing Boys Are Here (1916)], Theatricalia, accessed 24 April 2020[http://overthefootlights.co.uk/London%20Revues%201915-1919.pdf The Bing Boys Are Here], Over The Footlight Notes, p. 9, accessed 24 April 2020 and The Bing Girls Are There (1917), both at the Alhambra Theatre.[http://overthefootlights.co.uk/London%20Revues%201915-1919.pdf "The Bing Girls Are There"], Over the Footlights, p. 19, accessed 24 April 2020
She played Jane in the silent film Winning a Widow (1910).[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20180910224145mp_/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films%2Dtv%2Dpeople/540f7b8ea4d4e Blanche Stocker], British Film Institute, accessed 24 April 2020
Stocker died in Kensington in London in 1950 aged 65. She never married.{{fact|date=January 2021}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp65483/blanche-stocker Photographic portraits of Blanche Stocker] - National Portrait Gallery, London
- [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3100338/ Blanche Stocker] on Internet Movie Database
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Category:Actresses from Mumbai
Category:English women singers
Category:English stage actresses