Wigan Album
MARIE AULT
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Photo: RON HUNT
Item #: 29880
Ron: She appears dressed similarly in the film Love on the Dole.
She played Mrs. Jike in love on the dole the picture you have shown
Marie Ault (2 September 1870 – 9 May 1951) was a British actress.
Born at Wigan, Lancashire, she was a star in many British films of the silent era but is most remembered for her role as Daisy Bunting's mother in The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
She also had bit parts in films such as Jamaica Inn (1939) and Caesar and Cleopatra (1945).
She died in London, England on 9 May 1951.
She's also seen handling the Cockney accent very well in Major Barbara (28:00), subsequently suffering at the brutish hands of Robert Newton (33:00). According to Wiki', it was filmed during The Blitz of 1940.