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Pearl E'doire (born in Lodz in 1914, under the name Piotr 'Peter' Drzal) is a little known cross dressing flapper/actress of the late 1920s and early 1930's. Pearl settled in London in 1918 after his father, a pharmacist, was held at Alexandra Palace internment camp as a prisoner of war. Following the end of the war Drzal's father was unable to continue work as a pharmacist. The reduced income, alongside his mother's aspirations of Hollywood fame meant that Drzal spent much of his childhood at auditions in the West end. These were mostly unsuccessful until his teens when, under the direction of his mother Drzal's accent was presented as generically foreign. Presented as French, with a new name and gender, the long limbed 14 year old boy easily became a currently fashionable flapper girl. Drzal, performing as Pearl was cast in his first show, The Cardboard Lover alongside Tallulah Bankhead in 1928.

Pearl went on to enjoy a brief fame, appearing in various small roles including 'The Love Game' starring Ralph Neale in 1929 and 'Lets Leave it at That' with 'Jeanne De Casalis' in 1929. Pearl unfortunately failed to make the transition from the west end stage to cinema and was unsuccessful at scoring a lead role. A combination of the decline of the flapper and his increasingly masculine physique brought an end to his acting career. In 1938 he became a copywriter and continued to work in publishing until he was 65. He died of a heart attack in 1979.