Blue plaque to Brighton comedian Max Miller put up

A statue of Max Miller stands in the Royal Pavilion Gardens

A new plaque to the late music hall comedian Max Miller is to be placed on his former home in Brighton.

The plaque will be unveiled at 25 Burlington Street by actor Jamie Kenna, who played Miller in a stage play about his life called The Cheeky Chappie.

A 1980 plaque on the building turned out to be incorrect, with the British Music Hall Society, which is putting up the replacement, describing the performer as "never entirely transparent" about his date of birth.

The new memorial joins a statue of Miller in the Royal Pavilion Gardens and another plaque on Marine Terrace, both erected by the Max Miller Appreciation Society.

The new plaque is being put up by the British Music Hall Society

One of the most successful stand-up comedians of the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Miller was born in Kemptown, Brighton, on 21 November, 1894.

He was renowned for his timing, flamboyant stage suits and risque material, becoming the highest-paid variety artist of his day in 1942 when he earned £1,025 for a single week at the Coventry Hippodrome.

Burlington Street, where Max Miller lived and died in 1963

Following a heart attack in 1958 he made his final West End appearance at the Palace Theatre the following year, and his last-ever stage performance was in Folkestone, Kent, in 1960.

He died in Burlington Street on 7 May, 1963.

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