Lilyan Irene on AllMovie

Best remembered as the abused nursemaid in perhaps Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's best short comedy, the award-winning The Music Box (1932), this British-born singer played more parlor, nurse, and bar maids than anybody else in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s. Occasionally, moviegoers got to enjoy Irene's voice as well, memorably in Betty Grable's Sweet Rosie O'Grady where, as Grace, she sings "Battle Cry."