- Her younger brother Robert Andrews, born as Reginald Frank Andrews (1895-1976), was also a British child actor and later a stage and film actor. He is perhaps best known as the long-term partner of Ivor Novello.
- She was Sue Smith in the original London production of No, No, Nanette (1925) opposite Binnie Hale and George Grossmith Jr. at the Palace Theatre in London and reprised her role as Sue Smith in the 1936 revival opposite Shaun Glenville at the London Hippodrome.
- She was Mrs Stirling in Noël Coward's musical Pacific 1860 (1946) opposite Mary Martin and Graham Payn. It was the first show to play at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane after World War II.
- In 1959 she played Brigette Blair in a national tour of the farcical comedy Fool's Paradise, opposite Cicely Courtneidge.
- In February 1910 she appeared as Mrs Darling and First Twin in Peter Pan at the Duke of York's Theatre opposite Herbert Hollom, the first male Peter Pan.
- Early 1907 saw her touring as the Second Twin in Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up opposite Zena Dare, and she toured as the First Twin in the 1909-10 tour of Peter Pan opposite Pauline Chase as Peter.
- She was Cissie, one of the Babes in the pantomime Babes in the Wood opposite Phyllis Dare as Charley at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham (1904-05), while in July 1905 she was Little Joan in Where the Crows Gathered at the Criterion Theatre.
- In her will her estate was valued at £158,260.
- A theatrical child star, she made her professional stage debut shortly before her 10th birthday as Master Sterling in The Climbers at the Comedy Theatre in September 1903, and playing Alice in Alice in Wonderland at the same theatre during the Christmas period 1903-04.
- In 1950 she was living at Littlewick Green at Cookham with her youngest brother Cyril Walter Andrews.
- Maidie Andrews spent her last years living in the family home of 37 St Mary's Mansions, St Mary's Terrace in Kensington.
- In 1939 she was living with her widowed mother Ada Harriet Andrews at Littlewick Green at Cookham in Berkshire.
- She was an English actress and singer who, in a career that spanned six decades, was a child actress and later a stage beauty who appeared in musical comedy's including the original London productions of No, No, Nanette (1925) and Cavalcade (1931).
- Her television appearances included ITV Play of the Week (1956) and Ivor Novello (1956), a BBC docudrama about the life of Ivor Novello.
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