Phyllis Virginia "Bebe" (/ˈbiːbiː/) Daniels (January 14, 1901 – March 16, 1971) was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer, and producer.

She began her career in Hollywood during the silent film era as a child actress, became a star in musicals such as Rio Rita, and later gained fame on radio and television in Britain.

[6] The family moved to Los Angeles in her childhood, and she began her acting career at the age of 4 in the first version of The Squaw Man (play).

At the age of 9, she starred as Dorothy Gale[citation needed] in the 1910 short film The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

She accepted an offer from producer-director Cecil B. DeMille, who gave her secondary roles in Male and Female (1919), Why Change Your Wife?

She made the transition from child star to adult in Hollywood in 1922, and by 1924, she was acting with Rudolph Valentino in Monsieur Beaucaire.

In 1932, she appeared in Silver Dollar (1932) and the successful Busby Berkeley choreographed musical comedy 42nd Street (1933) in which she sang.

Ultimately, the jury found Holland to be mentally unfit, and he was committed to a psychiatric facility for an indefinite period.

[10] Daniels retired from Hollywood in 1935 with her husband, film actor Ben Lyon, and their two children, and moved to London.

Daniels, her husband, her son Richard and her daughter Barbara all starred in the radio sitcom Life with the Lyons (1951 to 1961), which later made the transition to television.

[13] They had two children: daughter Barbara in 1931 and a son Richard (born Bryan Moore in 1935), whom they adopted from a London orphanage.

In an issue of the contemporary magazine Radio Pictorial, she explained how she saw Richard peering through the railings and instantly thought "A brother for Barbara".

Her remains were cremated at London's Golders Green Crematorium and the ashes returned to the United States; she was interred at the Chapel Columbarium at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.