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Daisy Fisher, born Daisy Gertrude Fisher; (7 November 1887 – 2 April 1969) was an English novelist and playwright. Telegraph Obituary: Michael Mason, The Daily Telegraph, 3 July 2014 She was the writer of several , a lyricist, scriptwriter, actress and singer. In the 1920s she wrote the lyrics for some of Eric Coates' compositions. In 1926 she published her first book Lavender Ladies A Comedy in Three Acts followed by more in the 1930s. Fisher authored some plays with the song writer Harold Simpson, Ronald Jeans and Clifford Seyler. She was the wife of Herbert Mason the film director and producer who previously acted on stage (including several productions at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre). After the Second World War they worked together on some plays.
In 1933 The Hill Beyond was published. It acts as a sequel to The Gates Swings Open and is about a girl from between settling down in the countryside with her husband or an exciting life in the theatrical world in London. In 1935 Fisher wrote the story for Things Are Looking Up with Albert de Courville, Stafford Dickens and Con West. It was the film debut for Vivien Leigh who had an uncredited role as a school girl.Reid, John Howard, 2005, p. 205 In 1937 Fisher's A Ship Comes Home was performed at St Martin's Theatre, London. The play starred Michael Redgrave who later had a role in Mason's A Window in London. Mason and Fisher financed and were authors of Lend Me Robin (1948), which was shown at Embassy TheatreWearing, 2014, London Stage 1940–1949, p. 485 a few years before it was sold to the Central School of Speech and Drama. It was a comedy about a wife who tries to win back her philandering husband (portrayed by Charles Goldner) by taking a lover.Hobson, 1950, p. 89 The play also starred William Mervyn who later had a part in Conflict of Wings produced by Mason. Three years later they worked on an eternal triangle thriller Dangerous Woman.
Daisy Fisher died on 2 April 1969 in London.
| Comedy | 1925 | Lavender Ladies A Comedy in Three Acts |
| 1930 | Pie Crust | |
| 1931 | Memory of Grange | |
| 1932 | The Gate Swings Open | |
| 1933 | The Hill Beyond | |
| 1936 | A Heart Was Lost | |
| Comedy | 1948 | A Ship Comes Home A Play in Three Acts |
| Stage | 1920 | Mary's Orchard | Eric Coates | Operetta | |
| Vocal | 1920 | The White Winding Road | Eric Coates | ||
| Vocal | 1920 | You Come No More | Eric Coates | ||
| Vocal | 1920 | Autumn Love | Eric Coates | (unpublished) | |
| Vocal | circa 1921–24 | Everything is Simply Fine and Life is Completely Jolly | (unpublished) | ||
| circa 1921–24 | The Inconstant Lover | (unpublished) | |||
| circa 1921–24 | Why I sigh for the Moon | ||||
| Vocal | 1922 | Coloured Fields | Eric Coates | ||
| Vocal | 1923 | Nobody Else but You | Eric Coates | ||
| Stage | 1924 | Ullo (revue) | Co wrote with Henry Creamer, Clifford Seyler and Jack Stachey | Major and Mrs Holt, 1990, p. 123 | |
| (undated) | The Challenge | (unpublished) | |||
| (undated) | Purple Heather | (unpublished) | |||
| 1935 | Things Are Looking Up | Scriptwriter | Co wrote with Stafford Dickens, Con West and Albert de Courville |
| 1912 | The Follies | Royal Lyceum Theatre and Apollo Theatre | (with H. G. Pelissier's Follie's Company) | Wearing, 1982, London Stage 1910–1919, p. 286 | ||
| 1914–15 | Cinderella | Birmingham Repertory Theatre | D'Arcy Mackay, 1927, p. 37 | |||
| 1923–26 | Lavender Ladies | Novello Theatre, Comedy Theatre, London and Lyric Theatre, London | ||||
| 1924 | Our Cabaret | The Victorian Theatre | (with Ronald Jeans and Clifford Seyler) | |||
| 1924–25 | The Punch Bowl | Duke of York's Theatre, London and His Majesty's Theatre, London | ||||
| 1927 | The Cave Man | The Theatre Royal, Portsmouth and Savoy Theatre, London | (with Harold Simpson) | |||
| 1936–37 | A Ship Comes Home | St Martin's Theatre, London | ||||
| 1948 | Lend Me Robin | Embassy Theatre, London | (with Herbert Mason) | |||
| 1951 | Dangerous Woman | Wimbledon Theatre, London | (with Herbert Mason) | |||
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