Doris Lytton

Doris Lytton (January 23, 1893 – December 2, 1953) was an English actress on stage and in silent films, and a businesswoman in the 1920s.

Doris Lytton performed in plays on the London stage from her girlhood, including The Conqueror (1905), For the Crown (1905), J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1907),[1] Cicely Hamilton's feminist comedy Diana of Dobson's (1908, 1909),[2] Might is Right (1909), Inconstant George (1910),[3] Cosmo Hamilton's The Blindness of Virtue (1913),[4] Never Say Die (1913),[5] J. M. Barrie's Dear Brutus (1917),[6] Husbands for All (1920), Reginald Berkeley's French Leave (1920),[7] The Fulfilling of the Law (1921), A Matter of Fact (1921), Trespasses (1923), The Confession (1925), Harley Granville-Barker's The Madras House (1925-1926), Behold the Bridegroom (1931), King Queen Knave (1932), Suspect (1937).

[8][9][10] Silent films featuring Doris Lytton included The Blue Bird (1910), The Brass Bottle (1914), The Single Man (1919), Mutiny (1925).

[12] In 1920, Lytton opened a shop called "Cinderella" in the West End of London, offering repairs for "expensive evening dress shoes".

[15] From 1945 to 1947 Doris Lytton Toye wrote a monthly cookery column for Vogue magazine, with illustrations by Denton Welch.