Lilian Bond(1908-1991)
- Actress
- Soundtrack
An attractive, wavy-haired brunette Londoner, Lilian Bond graduated
from Brompton Oratory School and began her show business career in
pantomimes and revues as a teenager. She travelled to America in 1926
to appear on Broadway in the
'Ziegfeld Follies' and for Earl Carroll's
'Vanities', as well as playing Rosamanda in 'Fioretta' with Fanny Brice.
One of her subsequent roles was in
'Stepping Out' (1929) with
Lionel Atwill,
a part she later reprised on screen. Her film roles generally saw her
as the 'other woman', except for a notable performance as Gladys
DuCane, one of the temporary lodgers at
The Old Dark House (1932) and,
of course, Lily Langtry in
The Westerner (1940). A beauty in
her time, once photographed in the nude by Alfred Cheney Johnston and
later romantically linked to
Howard Hughes, she retired from
films at the age of 50.
