'Betty', as she was originally billed (no surname), played in several revues by Harry Grattan, such as Odds and Ends and Mind Your Backs during the World War I, some of them produced by Andr Charlot.
From the 1920s, he produced musical revues and spectaculars in competition with André Charlot, and collaborated regularly with Noël Coward to produce Coward's famous plays and musical comedies.
He was best known as a director of musical revues and operettas, especially at Großes Schauspielhaus in Berlin.
Born in London, Bramley started out on stage in musical revues, and in June 1926, while visiting relatives in Hollywood, was signed by United Artists.
He wrote (and sometimes appeared in) a series of revues, including Odds and Ends, Erb and Emma, and Mind Your Backs during the World War I and into the 1920s, some of them produced by André Charlot and some with the child star Betty Bolton.
In the 1970s, he enjoyed the renewed interest in his songs, which appeared in many movies and revues and were recorded by artists such as Bette Midler, Bobby Short and Della Reese.
Much of the music for Grenfell's revues and shows was the result of a collaboration with the composers and pianists Richard Addinsell and William Blezard.
Many unknown performers who worked at Monk's cafe revues, including Ken Berry, Ruth Buzzi, Mary Louise Wilson, Liz Sheridan, and Dorothy Loudon, among others, went on to achieve varying degrees of fame.
At first, these revues were only moderately successful but they paved the way for Blackbirds of 1928.
His Revue of Revues (1911) introduced French star Gaby Deslys to America.
She performed in Clarence Williams' Revue at the Lincoln Theater in New York, then in various revues in New York and Atlantic City, New Jersey through 1934.
He also worked with Hasse Alfredson and Tage Danielsson, both in revues such as Spader, Madame! and Glaset i Örat (The Glass in the Ear) and movies such as Äppelkriget.
In 1937 she returned to Australia and was soon in work, playing in Cinderella (playing Dandini) and other pantomimes by day and revues with Jim Gerald and Ella Shields at night.
Nevertheless, American operetta largely gave way, by the end of World War I, to musicals, such as the Princess Theatre musicals, and revues, followed by the musicals of Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and others.
In 1912 he began to perform in cabarets and revues in the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Lapa.
While at Corpus (later the college of David and Ed Miliband), he was features editor of Isis, the student magazine, and a member of the Oxford University Broadcasting Society, also acting in numerous plays and revues, and co-directing Molière's The Miser with Peter Grose.
The revues he staged here are legend, presenting numerous top stars of the period, including names such as Josephine Baker, who appeared on January 14, 1926, Weintraubs Syncopators and comic Max Ehrlich.
She had seven years in the UK in straight plays, revues and musical comedies then seven years directing and playing in her own stock company in the Orient.
Beginning in 1936, he wrote lyrics for a number of revues, melodramas and burlesques in collaboration with composers, Richard Lewine, Hoagy Carmichael and Vernon Duke.
As her career as a blues singer waned, mostly she sustained herself by performing in cabaret revues, and starring in musical revues such as New York Revue (1928) and Next Door Neighbors (1928) at the Lincoln Theatre in Harlem.
Kollo also emerged as a composer of revues and sound films in 1915, was one of the founders of the performer's rights organization GEMA, and had his own music publishing company.
The show was typical of revues and follies, featuring acrobatics, dancers, jugglers, and also featured a demonstration by Lightweight Boxing Champion Benny Leonard.
Some of his revues consisted of renditions of the songs of Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens, which were often translated from the French for him by Naomi Shemer.