Doris Lytton

Doris Lytton Partington was born in Manchester.

Doris Lytton performed in plays on the London stage from her girlhood, including The Conqueror (1905), For the Crown (1905), J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1907),Bruce K. Hanson, [https://books.google.com/books?id=k3HHu_CxoWkC&dq=Doris+Lytton&pg=PA360 Peter Pan on Stage and Screen, 1904-2010] (McFarland 2011): 360. {{ISBN|9780786486199}} Cicely Hamilton's feminist comedy Diana of Dobson's (1908, 1909),Cicely Hamilton, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2F8sljkVi9wC&dq=Doris+Lytton&pg=PA73 Diana of Dobson's] (Broadview Press 2003): 73. {{ISBN|9781770481145}} Might is Right (1909), Inconstant George (1910),[https://books.google.com/books?id=cM4iAQAAMAAJ&dq=Doris+Lytton&pg=PA46 "The Actress Who Sprang into Fame with 'Inconstant George'"] The Sketch (October 19, 1910): 46. Cosmo Hamilton's The Blindness of Virtue (1913),Charles W. Collins, [https://books.google.com/books?id=XloiAQAAMAAJ&dq=Doris+Lytton&pg=PA776 "A Drama for Mothers and their Daughters"] Green Book (October 1913): 776-785. Never Say Die (1913),Noël Coward, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WvGIVjIrFvoC&dq=Doris+Lytton&pg=PA41 Present Indicative] (A&C Black 2012): 41. {{ISBN|9781408190777}} J. M. Barrie's Dear Brutus (1917),J. M. Barrie, [https://books.google.com/books?id=04KjkW6sGecC&dq=Doris+Lytton&pg=PA4 Dear Brutus: A Play in Three Acts] (Samuel French 1949): 4. Husbands for All (1920), Reginald Berkeley's French Leave (1920),Reginald Berkeley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=6gtKAQAAMAAJ&dq=Doris+Lytton&pg=PA3 French Leave: A Light Comedy in Three Acts] (S. French Limited 1922): 3. The Fulfilling of the Law (1921), A Matter of Fact (1921), Trespasses (1923), The Confession (1925), Harley Granville-Barker's The Madras House (1925-1926), Behold the Bridegroom (1931), King Queen Knave (1932), Suspect (1937). J. P. Wearing, [https://books.google.com/books?id=o5JWAgAAQBAJ&dq=Doris+Lytton&pg=PA257 The London Stage 1900-1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel] (Scarecrow Press 2013): 255, 257, 395. {{ISBN|9780810892941}}J. P. Wearing, [https://books.google.com/books?id=5vFEAwAAQBAJ&dq=Doris+Lytton&pg=PA403 The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel] (Rowman & Littlefield 2014): 25, 44, 403. {{ISBN|9780810893023}}J. P. Wearing, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2mYAwAAQBAJ&dq=Doris+Lytton&pg=PA584 The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel] (Rowman & Littlefield 2014): 149, 584. {{ISBN|9780810893047}}

File:BlindnessofVirtue1913.tif as Archie, in Cosmo Hamilton's The Blindness of Virtue (1913).]]

Silent films featuring Doris Lytton included The Blue Bird (1910), The Brass Bottle (1914), The Single Man (1919), Mutiny (1925).Denis Gifford, ed., [https://books.google.com/books?id=FszeCwAAQBAJ&dq=Doris+Lytton&pg=PT4584 British Film Catalogue] (Routledge 2016). {{ISBN|9781317740629}} She was also in the cast of a 1942 BBC Home Service production of The King Comes to His Own, a Biblical drama by Dorothy L. Sayers.Dorothy L. Sayers, [https://books.google.com/books?id=LBVNAwAAQBAJ&dq=Doris+Lytton&pg=PA333 The Man Born to Be King] (Wipf & Stock Publishers 2011): 333. {{ISBN|9781610975490}}

In 1920, Lytton opened a shop called "Cinderella" in the West End of London, offering repairs for "expensive evening dress shoes".[https://books.google.com/books?id=U_M-AQAAMAAJ&dq=Doris+Lytton&pg=RA1-PA32 "Actress Shoe Repairer"] The Shoe Repairer and Dealer (October 1, 1920): 32. A newspaper writer praised her effort as "an example of the new woman who has gone into business for herself and made good."[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10888988/doris_lytton_opens_cinderella_1920/ "This Cinderella Needs No Magic Wand to Transform Slippers"] Ogden Standard-Examiner (August 20, 1920): 5. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}

Lytton was known to sew and embroider backstage, and enjoyed cooking. "I have loved to cook ever since I was a wee thing and had a toy cook stove," she explained to an American reporter while on tour in the United States in 1913.Mae Tinee, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10889279/interview_with_doris_lytton_1913/ "Doris Doesn't Like Matinee Gigglers"] Chicago Sunday Tribune (January 19, 1913): 15. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} From 1945 to 1947 Doris Lytton Toye wrote a monthly cookery column for Vogue magazine, with illustrations by Denton Welch.James Methuen-Campbell, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ciSMtc9HxXoC&dq=Doris+Lytton&pg=PA157 Denton Welch: Writer and Artist] (Tauris Parke Paperbacks 2004): 157. {{ISBN|9781860649240}} It featured advice particular to the rationing conditions in England during and after World War II. For example, it suggested barley or pasta as workable alternatives to rice, which was not available. A cookbook based on her columns, Contemporary Cookery, was published in 1947.Katherine Knight, Spuds, Spam ad Eating for Victory: Rationing in the Second World War (History Press 2011). {{ISBN|9780752472942}} The cookbook's additional illustrations were provided by John Minton.Daniel J. Murtaugh, ed., [https://books.google.com/books?id=1vIZDgAAQBAJ&dq=Doris+Lytton+Toye&pg=PA203 Good Night, Beloved Comrade: The Letters of Denton Welch to Eric Oliver] (University of Wisconsin Press 2017): 203. {{ISBN|9780299310103}}

Doris Lytton married opera composer and conductor Geoffrey Toye in 1915.John Parker, ed., [https://books.google.com/books?id=qyk_AQAAMAAJ&dq=Doris+Lytton+Partington&pg=PA808 Who's Who in the Theatre] (Pittman 1922): 808. They divorced before 1936. She died in London in 1953, aged 60 years, after falling from the window of her fifth floor apartment.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10889561/doris_lytton_fell_to_her_death_1953/ "Doris Lytton, 60, Dies in Plunge"] Long Beach Independent (December 4, 1953): 13. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}

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• The National Portrait Gallery has [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person?LinkID=mp51319&wPage=0 24 portraits of Doris Lytton], all of them taken between 1914 and 1918 by Bassano Ltd
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Category:English actresses

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