Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Billie Carleton (née Florence Lenora Stewart) NPG x101052

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

Billie Carleton's fame, such as it was, concerned her demise, rather than her stage career. Charles B. Cochran and André Charlot, the leading impresarios of musical plays and revues during the First world War, both gave her leading roles; Cochran in Watch Your Step (1915) and Charlot in Some (1916). She was part of a fast-living, drug-taking set. After an all-night party following a Victory Ball at the Albert Hall in November 1918, she was found dead in bed, the victim of a drugs... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.