Claudine Walker - Telegraph The following year, Claudine, with her sisters Claudette and Angella, appeared in Dance of the Paper Dolls, one of the earliest colour films, and the original Broadway Melody with Bessie Love. They achieved the distinction of being the first children to appear in a Movietone newsreel and, off camera, were feted by, among others, George Bernard Shaw and the film star Robert Taylor, who visited their home in Hove. The girls" handprints were immortalised at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. At the height of their fame, when they were each commanding an astronomical £25 a day from the film studios, their parents, Captain Claude Mawby and his wife, Ella, became anxious about their safety after the kidnapping and murder of the aviator Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son. They had received kidnap threats, and, on one occasion, a group of men had run their car off the road in Los Angeles before being seen off by the burly actor Victor McLaglen, who happened to be travelling with them. The family returned home shortly afterwards. In 1936, however, when they had all reached that age, the three girls appeared in the musical Going Places with Arthur Riscoe at the Savoy Theatre in London. Their secret was, however, out by that time: they were not, in fact, triplets. Angella was 11 months older than her twin sisters, Claudette and Claudine. In the spring of 1930 George Bernard Shaw invited them to his home in Hertfordshire. "Which is which?" the playwright asked when he opened his door. I can't tell them apart. Can anyone? The girls were reported to have registered "blank surprise" when he asked them if they were "very conceited." They assured him it was "perfectly lovely" making films. Claudine's abiding memory of the day was the way Shaw kept his wife, Charlotte, locked away in his garden shed for the duration of their visit. The outbreak of war effectively put an end to their careers. Claudette was killed in a hotel in Brighton when it was hit by a V-1 flying bomb. Angella died at her home in Sussex in 2000. In 1998, six decades after she lost Claudette, Claudine gave an insight into the loss she still felt when she entered the debate that followed a gynaecologist's decision to abort a healthy twin because its mother, who already had three babies, felt she could not cope with another. "Imagine two people who not only look the same, but also think the same, laugh at the same things, cry at the same things, and, even when they are hundreds of miles apart, know exactly what the other is feeling," she wrote in a national newspaper. Imagine two people who are, to all intents and purposes, one. That is the relationship I had with Claudette. It was, I suppose, the most perfect relationship you could ever have. She remained in unusually robust health into her 90th year. Only weeks before her death she was swimming off the Dorset coast. Claudine married, in 1941, William Walker, a Spitfire pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain and who later worked in the brewing industry. She had seven children by him, two of whom predeceased her. She was separated from her husband, who survives her . Claudine Walker, born August 10 1922, died September 13 2012.