Maisie Gay

Maisie Gay (born Maud Daisy Noble, 7 January 1878 – 13 September 1945), was an English actress and singer known for comic character roles in Edwardian musical comedies, including several by James T. Tanner, and in works by Noël Coward and musical film adaptations of Edgar Wallace plays.

Gay remained active on the stage in both London and New York, in musicals and revues, during World War I, especially in a US tour of Arthur Hammerstein's High Jinks in 1914 and 1915.

as "Miss Hernia Whittlebot" drew ire from Edith Sitwell, who believed the role was a crude parody of herself.

She made her first sound film in 1930, singing in To Oblige a Lady (adapted from the play by Edgar Wallace).

Around the same time she wrote her autobiography, Laughing through Life (1931),[8] and retired from the stage as she experienced advancing arthritis.