Old Mother Riley

Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane as Old Mother Riley and her daughter Kitty

Old Mother Riley is a fictional character portrayed from about 1934 to 1954 by Arthur Lucan and from 1954 to the 1980s by Roy Rolland as part of a British music hall act.[1][2]

Old Mother Riley (full comedy name: Daphne Bluebell Snowdrop Riley) is an Irish washerwoman and charwoman character, devised by Lucan (born Arthur Towle).[1][3] His wife Kitty McShane played Old Mother Riley's daughter, Kitty.[1] It was essentially a drag act but also a double act. The couple played music halls, theatres, and broadcast on radio and appeared in films. Lucan was voted sixth biggest British box-office star by the Motion Picture Herald in 1943.[4][5] In 1939, Jimmy Clitheroe appeared in an Old Mother Riley pantomime called The Old Woman who Lives in a Shoe,[6] and then the following year had a part in the film, Old Mother Riley in Society. The Film Fun comic included an "Old Mother Riley" strip cartoon in the 1940s.

Old Mother Riley was the first and arguably the most influential drag act on stage and screen. Although nothing like the glamorous acts like Danny La Rue, Old Mother Riley proved that drag could be a smash hit with audiences and make you a star. The Old Mother Riley films also proved that drag could be an acceptable part of comedy and storytelling. Previous to Old Mother Riley, drag was a mixture of singing acts and short comedy sketches in music halls across the UK.

Roy Rolland was Lucan's understudy and stand-in, and after Lucan's death in 1954 he continued to play the Old Mother Riley character in pantomime, on television and in cabaret until the 1980s.[1]

The character and show exist in a comic lineage that extends to Mrs. Brown's Boys.[7]

Old Mother Riley films

Made on a minuscule budget, but extremely profitable, 16 of the 18 films made by Arthur Lucan featured him as Old Mother Riley:

At the time of Lucan's death he was scheduled to film Old Mother Riley's Trip to Mars.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Gifford, Denis (26 August 1997). "Obituary Roy Rolland". The Independent. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  2. ^ "Old Mother Riley homepage". Archived from the original on 2012-02-20. Retrieved 2014-10-04.
  3. ^ "Britmovie". Old Mother Riley: The Life and Career of Arthur Lucan. Britmovie. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
  4. ^ Matthew Coniam (2009-09-13). "The 1944-45 Motion Picture Almanac". Movietone News. Archived from the original on 2014-03-03. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
  5. ^ "Arthur Lucan – the man who was "Old Mother Riley"" (PDF). Brent.gov.uk. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Vintage British Comedy". Old Mother Riley. Archived from the original on 18 December 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
  7. ^ McMullan, Thomas (24 December 2018). "How Mrs Brown's Boys became a critic-proof hit". BBC News. Retrieved 24 December 2018.

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