Before long, Courtenay became addicted to alcohol and gambling, and grew jealous of his wife's close friendship with the 13-year-old actress Bella Burge.

He also became angry at the numerous parties Lloyd hosted for fellow members of the music hall profession, including Gus Elen, Dan Leno and Eugene Stratton.

She acted in several films, including the Deforest Phonofilm Marie Lloyd in 1926, appeared in the shorts Old Timers and Pal O'Mine in 1936, and in the early television broadcast Music Hall Cavalcade in 1937.

[citation needed] During the 1960s, she toured in Thanks for the Memory for Don Ross, a nostalgic revival of music hall entertainment first staged in 1947.

In Courtenay's case, this was Harry Aylin (1885—1927),[5] with the two tying the knot in 1907 at the church of St Stephen the Martyr in Hampstead.