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“May Lilly” or "May Lily"
Photographs of the real May Lilly from
Fox Film Corporation Scrapbook
by the Little Colonel Productions, Inc., probably by
Kate Matthews.
We first meet May Lilly in
Chapter III of the very first story in the series,
The Little Colonel when Old Colonel
Lloyd comes riding down the avenue of locusts on Maggie Boy and sees
his granddaughter making mud pies on Locust’s
stately front steps. Helping her are two African American children, May
Lilly and Henry Clay, who live in cabins on the property. The scene,
which concludes with the Little Colonel flinging mud on her
grandfather’s pristine white duck suit in a fit of pique, was also in
“The Little Colonel” movie. Avonnie Jackson played May Lilly and Nyanza
Potts, Henry Clay with Shirley Temple as the Little Colonel.
In later books, she is called May Lily. She appears or is
mentioned in The Little Colonel's Hero,
Chapter 10 and
Chapter 12,
The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation,
Chapter 15 (where we
learn she was one of the "old cook's grandchildren"),
The Little Colonel, Maid of Honor,
Chapter 7, and in
Mary Ware's Promised Land,
Part 2, Chapter 8
Sadly, other than the recently rediscovered photos above and the
clues in the Little Colonel books, we so far know nothing more about the
real-life May Lily
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