Adele Astaire (1896 - 1981) comedy actress and dance partner of her brother, Fred Astaire from childhood until 1932, when she retired from dance to marry the British aristocrat Lord Charles Spencer Cavendish, second son of the 9th Duke of Devonshire. Pictured here wearing a white silk blouse with a simple high neck described by The Sketch as 'very 1934 - if not 1935, as are her array of bracelets of precious stones cut like beads'.