Pete Townshend asserted that it was an old photograph of Lilian Baylis that inspired the song Pictures of Lily by the English pop group The Who.
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After a long illness, Baylis died of a heart attack on 25 November 1937, aged 63, the night before the Old Vic was to open a production of Macbeth starring Laurence Olivier and Judith Anderson.
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She also scored a casting coup by featuring Charles Laughton at the theatre in 1933 after he had become a worldwide name in the film The Private Life of Henry VIII.
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They toured for some time but eventually settled in Johannesburg, where Baylis earned a good living as a music and dance teacher.
Trevor Baylis | Lilian Thuram | Lilian Harvey | Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland | Lilian Oldland | Princess Lilian | Lilian Whiting | Lilian Velez | Lilian Vaughan Morgan | Lilian Uchtenhagen | Lilian Greenwood | Lilian Clarke | Lilian Braithwaite | Lilian Bland | Helen Lilian Shaw | Baylis, Illinois |
The English National Opera, an English opera company founded by Lilian Baylis