Dorma Leigh was a British dancer, born in 1890, who died in 1969.
Biography
Dorma Leigh (1890–1969) was a British dancer, actress and playwright.
Leigh was born Dorothy Mabel Woodley. She danced with Jan Oyra in The Girl on the Film in 1913.
In 1919 she married the writer Peter Cheyney. Cheyney petitioned for a divorce from Leigh in 1931 on the grounds of adultery but as he admitted adultery the judge granted a decree nisi in favour of Leigh.
In 1917 she wrote a play Brownie.
From the Wikipedia article “Dorma Leigh”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Contemporaries
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actor
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Dolores
artists' model
Winifred Hart-Dyke
English dancer, singer and actress
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Alex Moore
British dancer (1901–1991)
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Rosemary Du Cros
aviator, one of the 'first eight' female pilots in Air Transport Auxiliary (1901-1994)
Elsa Lanchester
British-American actress (1902–1986)
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