Camille Clifford was an Edwardian celebrity, a stage actress-that is, she was famous for her unique beauty and being quite fitting to the Edwardian "Gibson Girl" ideals, which was the ideal feminine beauty during the 1900s. Original name is Camilla Antoinette Clifford; she was born in Belgium in June 29th, 1885. Daughter of Matilda Ottersen and Reynold Clifford. She was raised in Belgium and the United States.
She made her first stage appearance as a seventeen year-old in 1902 as a member of the chorus in a production of "The Defender" at the Broadway Theatre in New York. She next appeared in a non-speaking role in the original cast of the hit musical comedy "The Prince of Pilsen". The following she came to England with the cast of that production and first appeared on the English stage at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 14th May 1904. By that time, she was a minor player, but her beauty did turn heads quick.
She was very fitting to the feminine beauty of "Gibson Girl", which was drawn by Charles Dana Gibson at the turn of the century. She had full breast, well forward; with long sloping bust, impossibly thin waist, graceful curves over the hips, head held high and shoulders down; it was an imaginary ideal that few real women could come close to, but Camille fit the part so perfectly .
She made her first stage appearance as a seventeen year-old in 1902 as a member of the chorus in a production of "The Defender" at the Broadway Theatre in New York. She next appeared in a non-speaking role in the original cast of the hit musical comedy "The Prince of Pilsen". The following she came to England with the cast of that production and first appeared on the English stage at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 14th May 1904. By that time, she was a minor player, but her beauty did turn heads quick.
She was very fitting to the feminine beauty of "Gibson Girl", which was drawn by Charles Dana Gibson at the turn of the century. She had full breast, well forward; with long sloping bust, impossibly thin waist, graceful curves over the hips, head held high and shoulders down; it was an imaginary ideal that few real women could come close to, but Camille fit the part so perfectly .
Camille stopped acting when she married the Honorable Henry Lyndhurst Bruce, son and heir of Lord Aberdare, at a London registry office on 11th October 1906. They had one child who was born on 13th August, 1909 and died five days after. After the death of her husband in 1914 she returned to theater and appeared in “The Girl of the Future”, then she left the stage again when she was married to John Meredyth Jones Evans MC on 9th August 1917. After that she was never seen on stage again, and died on the 28th June, 1971.
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