I am a film producer looking for information on Betty May, the subject of a feature film we are intending to make.
A screenplay is currently being written and concentrates on events in the early Twenties.
Betty May Golding was born in Limehouse in 1894.
In her late teens, drawn to the bright lights of the West End, Betty was adopted by artists Augustus John and Jacob Epstein and introduced into bohemian cafe society.
Twice married, in 1922 Betty fell in love with Frederick Loveday, known as Raoul, a young poet just down from Oxford.
After a short courtship, they married. Soon afterwards, Raoul fell under the spell of the occultist Aleister Crowley.
Raoul's controversial death at Crowley's Temple of Thelema in Sicily led to Crowley's eventual expulsion from Italy by Mussolini.
A familiar character in Fitzrovia until after the Second World War, Betty then faded from the scene and lost touch with friends and family.
There is a suggestion she married a fifth time and went by the name of Betty May Bailey.
There is also evidence she was known around Brighton and the South Coast until the Seventies but it is not known when and where she died.
If anyone has any information about Betty May, particularly with regard to the post-war years, please email beth.sanders@crowfootfilms.com
-Beth Sanders, Crowfoot Films, London
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