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PHOTO SIGNED BY THE HILTON CONJOINED TWINS
HILTON
(Daisy and Violet, 1906 or 1908-1969, English born Variety Entertainers who were conjoined Twins)
Fine Photo Signed by both and inscribed
To Frank in appreciation of your kindness to us during our brief visit to the Hippodrome... Always yours,Violet & Daisy Hilton..., showing them identically dressed in black dresses and fur stoles, standing on stage, 10 x 7½, no place, 3rd March
Item Date: 1933
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Background
The twins were exhibited in Europe as children, and toured the United States in the Vaudeville and American burlesque circuits in the 1920s and 1930s. They were best known for their film appearances in Freaks and the biographic Chained for Life (1951). They were variously in media called or referred to as The Siamese Twins, The Hilton Sisters and The Brighton Twins or The Brighton Conjoined Twins and in the United States as the San Antonio Twins. The sisters performed alongside Bob Hope and Charlie Chaplin. After years of being managed professionally by their legal guardians, in the early 1930s, on the advice of Harry Houdini, they were legally emancipated.
the writing is barely legible but can still be made out
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