Ivy St. Helier

Ivy Janet Aitchison (1886 – 8 November 1971) better known as Ivy St. Helier, was a British stage actress, composer and lyricist.^{[1] [2]}

St. Helier was born in her namesake, Saint Helier, in Jersey.^{[3] [4]}

On the stage, St. Helier played Manon la Crevette in the original production of Noël Coward's operetta Bitter Sweet (1929), a role she reprised in the 1933 film version.^{[5] [6]} She also starred in Coward's revue Words and Music .^[7] As a lyricist, she wrote additional songs for The Street Singer , and for The Blue Train , the London musical by Reginald Arkell, Dion Titheradge and Robert Stolz.^{[8] [9]}

She made five films, including Laurence Olivier's Henry V (1944) and London Belongs to Me (1948).^[10]

St. Helier died on 8 November 1971 in London, England.^{[11] [12]}

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