Did Doris Kelly really run away from Australia and become a film actress in England?

Question

A couple of sources in England make it seem to be true. However I cannot find evidence for either marriage in England. Could someone who has access to the Australian sources please help out sourcing this profile? Doesn't matter whether it's true or not, either way it has to be dealt with.

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IMDB Discogs has this:

Billie Carlyle

Real Name: Doris Ann Rosida Davy

Profile: Australian actress, singer and comedian, born February 10, 1902, in Stepney, Adelaide and died July 23, 1991 in Staines, Surrey, England.

Edited to correct website name

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The BFI also has her death as "23 July 1991, Staines", so she definitely went to England.

I have not found a marriage, yet, though.

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Edit to add:

The Australian Variety Theatre Archive (opens a pdf) says they married in 1929, but not where.  It is another confirmation that Doris Davy as was became Billy/Billie Carlyle/Carlisle.

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I've married her off to Claude for the moment since we do have several secondary sources. Probably have to un-marry her later on. We really need sources for her first marriage and divorce, her own birth and the birth and death of her child.

If you have to leave your husband then that's the way to do it, I suppose, but how ever did she get away with it?

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Because it was easier then?  I still have not found a marriage for her and Claude.  I even looked (under various names) in the New Zealand index.   

It is always possible they did not marry - any more than Eleanor Burford married George Hibbert, despite everyone believing for more than 30 years that they were married - but that kind of longevity, where it is commonly accepted as a marital relationship, counts as a marriage.

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https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/209140297?searchTerm=stepney%2C%20south%20australia

There is an article in "The Express & Telegraph", Adelaide dated Monday 17th February 1902 page 2 which reads

BIRTHS DAVY
On 10th February at Normanville, James Street, Stepney, the wife of George Henry Davy - A Daughter

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In 1883, a man in my wife's tree left his family in Young NSW, and married in Adelaide SA, claiming he was a widower.  In those days, a declaration was accepted, but I would be surprised if he got away with it in the 20th c. "A but to the but": There was a account in the Readers Digest about a scam in England.  The con man looked up deceased estates with unclaimed money.  He went to the Registry and applied for a certificate appointing him Executor of the estate.  He then got a grant of probate.  His solicitor denied all knowledge of wrongdoing, but after the first one, he should have been suspicious.  His partnership expelled him.  But the real cause was the Registry acting on no evidence of the applicant's title, a standard practice back then.  Maybe they merely said, "It's not cricket"?