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Hilton Sisters poster. From the Billy Rose Theatre Collection in the New York Public Library’s Digital Gallery. “The Sensation of Vaudeville”San Antonio’sSiamese TwinsDaisy & Violet HiltonBorn Joined Together From the bibliographic notes: “Daisy and Violet Hilton, Siamese twins born 1908 to an unwed British barmaid in Brighton, England, were sold at birth to their midwife Mary Hilton, who soon began exhibiting them in public. At Mary Hilton’s death, they then became the wards of her daughter Emily, who later married Myer Myers of San Antonio, Texas, where they all moved. Emily Myers continued to profit off her wards, sometimes making as much as $3500.00 per week from their appearances as instumentalists and dancers in side shows, vaudeville, and on the Orpheum Circuit. In 1931, they successfully brought suit against Emily Myers to gain financial control over their own lives. They continued performing, appearing in several movies, and, despite very brief marriages for both of them, they remained alone, dying together in 1969.”

Hilton Sisters poster. From the Billy Rose Theatre Collection in the New York Public Library’s Digital Gallery.

“The Sensation of Vaudeville”
San Antonio’s
Siamese Twins
Daisy & Violet Hilton
Born Joined Together

From the bibliographic notes:

“Daisy and Violet Hilton, Siamese twins born 1908 to an unwed British barmaid in Brighton, England, were sold at birth to their midwife Mary Hilton, who soon began exhibiting them in public. At Mary Hilton’s death, they then became the wards of her daughter Emily, who later married Myer Myers of San Antonio, Texas, where they all moved. Emily Myers continued to profit off her wards, sometimes making as much as $3500.00 per week from their appearances as instumentalists and dancers in side shows, vaudeville, and on the Orpheum Circuit. In 1931, they successfully brought suit against Emily Myers to gain financial control over their own lives. They continued performing, appearing in several movies, and, despite very brief marriages for both of them, they remained alone, dying together in 1969.”

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    hahahaha funny thing, i actually read a little blurb about them in a book when i was looking up pictures for the final...
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    I have a reprint of this poster hanging over my bed.
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