Margie Morris (24 July 1892 â€" 14 January 1983) was an English stage
and silent film actress, revue artist, musician, dancer and singer who
worked in the Netherlands during the 1910s and 1920s.She was born in
Westminster in London in 1892 as Margaret Sarah Whitefoot, the
daughter of jeweller and pawnbroker Alfred Victor Whitefoot
(1867-1894) and Margaret Christina née Williamson (1869-1958). In
1901 she was a boarder at the girl's school attached to the Convent of
Our Lady of Sion in Islington in London. She was then educated at a
conservatory and aspired to become a musician. In 1905 her widowed
mother married Henry Walter Morris (1867â€"1934), a travelling
salesman for a drapery company and in 1911 she was living with her
mother and stepfather at Minard Road in Catford in London. At about
this time Morris met the Dutch revue artist Louis Davids at an
intimate party for artistes and although her stepfather was against
their relationship she moved to the Netherlands with him in 1913 with
various sources claiming that she was fleeing from her stepfather's
strict upbringing.Adopting her stepfather's surname, she joined the
company of Leon Boedels, director of the Flora Theatre in Amsterdam as
a dancer. Meanwhile Morris wrote songs with Davids which they
performed on stage under the name 'He, She and the Piano' ( 'Hij, zij
en de piano'). Their act was created by chance when one evening the
film director Willy Mullens misplaced a movie he had planned to screen
to his guests and he invited Davids and Morris to perform and they
were given the nickname by the audience. Morris's popularity increased
significantly and the duo's comedic repertoire soon became well-known
across the Netherlands in what is now known as Levenslied, the Dutch
genre of nostalgic sentimental popular music. One of the duo's more
famous songs from this period is De Jantjes, which was the basis for a
silent film in 1922, and a full motion picture in 1934. When World War
I broke out, Davids founded the First Dutch Mobilization Cabaret.
Together with Morris they performed for soldiers in Gorinchem.After
the mobilization, Morris and Davids continued the performances of 'He,
She and the Piano'. Meanwhile, she played in several revues. In 1915
she gave birth to a son, Louis Davids Jr. (Louis Harry Whitefoot).
From then on she focused on writing the music for Herman Bouber's
plays such as De Jantjes, Bleeke Bet and Oranje Hein and in 1920 she
played the leading role in one of these musicals. Her film career was
launched in 1918 with her playing the female lead in two Dutch silent
films: Margie in American Girls (1918) and Thérèse in The Devil in
Amsterdam (1919). At the premiere of American Girls Morris entertained
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