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Marie Tempest

Dame Mary Susan Etherington, DBE (15 July 1864 – 15 October 1942), known professionally as Marie Tempest, was an English singer and actress.

Dame
Marie Tempest
DBE

Mary Susan Etherington

15 July 1864
London, UK

15 October 1942 (aged 78)

London, UK

Actress and singer

Alfred Edward Izard
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(m. 1885; div. 1889)​
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(m. 1898; died 1921)​
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(m. 1921; died 1937)​

Tempest became a famous soprano in late Victorian light opera and Edwardian musical comedies. Later, she became a leading comic actress and toured widely in North America and elsewhere. She was, at times, her own theatre manager during a career spanning 55 years. She was also instrumental in the founding of the actors' union Equity in Britain.

1900 – San Toy in San Toy

1915 – Mrs. Plum in Mrs. Plum's Pudding

1937 – Baroness Lindenborg in Moonlight Sonata

1938 – Jennifer Varwell in

Yellow Sands

(1970). Last Theatres. New York: Taplinger. ISBN 978-0-8008-4564-3. OCLC 1150085558.

Beerbohm, Max

(1936). Marie Tempest. Lonson: Cobden-Sanderson. OCLC 852642096.

Bolitho, Hector

Day, Barry, ed. (2007). The Letters of Noël Coward. London: Methuen.  978-1-4081-0675-4.

ISBN

Hyman, Alan (1975). The Gaiety Years. London: Cassell.  978-0-30-429372-8.

ISBN

(1986). Arthur Sullivan. Oxford: Oxford Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0-19-282033-4.

Jacobs, Arthur

Parker, John, ed. (1922). Who's Who in the Theatre (fourth ed.). London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons.  473894893.

OCLC

Parker, John, ed. (1939). Who's Who in the Theatre (ninth ed.). London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons.  473894893.

OCLC

(2004). Operetta. New York and London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-96641-2.

Richard Traubner

at the Internet Broadway Database

Marie Tempest

at IMDb

Marie Tempest

Theatre Collection, University of Bristol

Information about productions starring Tempest

at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Portraits of Marie Tempest

The New York Times 17 July 1892

"Marie Tempest's Little Joke"

Tempest on the cover of , 30 January 1886

The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News