Old Mother Riley (full comedy name: Daphne Bluebell Snowdrop Riley) is an Irish washerwoman and charwoman character, devised by Lucan (born Arthur Towle). His wife Kitty McShane played Old Mother Riley's daughter, Kitty. It was essentially a drag act but also a double act. The couple played music halls, theatres, and broadcast on radio and appeared in films. Lucan was voted sixth biggest British box-office star by the "Motion Picture Herald" in 1943. In 1939, Jimmy Clitheroe appeared in an Old Mother Riley pantomime called "The Old Woman who Lives in a Shoe", and then the following year had a part in the film, "Old Mother Riley in Society". The "Film Fun" comic included an “Old Mother Riley” strip cartoon in the 1940s.