Lucille Lisle

Lucille Lisle, the Australian born film actress who enjoyed a career as a leading lady in somewhat incoherent movies during the early 1930s, was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and educated at St. Vincents College, Sydney. Her mother put her on the stage when still a child in the pantomime of `Dick Whittington' 1916 at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne. After she had grown up Lisle appeared in several productions under the management of J.C. Williamson limited, notably as Phyllis in `Old English' and as Anne Hall in `Cradle Snatchers' in which she toured for a year. She then appeared opposite Maurice Moscovitch in `The Silent House', followed by roles in `Saturday's Children' and Baby Cyclone' under the direction of Sir Benjamin Fuller. In 1930, she travelled to America making her debut there at the Empire theatre on October 6th as Bertina Farmer in `Stepdaughters of War'. Two years later she arrived in London after a short run in a play off Broadway. Lisle succeeded Edna Best as