Acting Collection (page 2)

Megalomania
A portrait illustration of a large lady wearing a white dress and a yellow hat with orange floral decoration, looking down at a child acting older than his age, as he smokes a cigar at her knee

Berthe Bovy
Mlle. Berthe Bovy on a bridge in Paris. This lady is a societaire of the Comedie Francaise, where her performances have gained her great renown

Miles Malleson
Portrait of Miles Malleson. William Miles Malleson (25 May 1888 ?? 15 March 1969), generally known as Miles Malleson, was an English actor and dramatist

Barrymore's Hamlet production
John Barrymore's Hamlet production at the Haymarket theatre. The scenery was very striking as seen in the illustration. Mr Barrymore is seen in the centre, centre with Miss Fay Compton

Spring cleaning the play perform at St Martin's theatre, directed by Mr Frederick Lonsdale. Mr. Denys Blakelock and Miss Edna Best, are seen in the picture and the main actors in the play

Peter Pan film 1924
An American film of Peter Pan. Directed by Sir James Barries. Hook played by Ernest Torrence. A selection of stills is seen here. Date: 1924

Actors and Actresses
Edwardian actors and actresses. Mr. Bernard Shaw and Miss Lillah McCarthy. Mr. Fred Terry's Daughter. Mr. Arthur Bourchier. Miss Iris Hoey. Miss Ellen Terry. Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Mrs Patrick Campbell playing Mrs Daventry
Mrs Patrick Campbell, (February 1865- April 1940) born Beatrice Rose Stella Tanner and known informally as Mrs Pat, was an English stage actress

Siberia, performed at the Hippodrome
Scenes of Asiatic- Russia life play, called Siberia performed at the London Hippodrome. Written by Mr Henglers. The scene of the plunging horses as prisoners escape from a prison with officers

Marianne and Herod
Actors Mr Beerbohm Tree and Miss Maud Jeffries dressed in costume for Herod; A Tragedy, written by Stephen Phillips (1884), at her majesty's theatre

Portrait of Miss Constance Collier
Miss Constance Collier (22nd January 1878- 25th April 1955), born Laura Constance Hardie, was an English stage and film actress and acting coach

Portrait of Mr. Forbes Robertson (16th January 1853- 6th November 1937), an English actor and theatre manager. He was considered the finest Hamlet of the Victorian era

Constance Collier, actress, theatrical studio portrait
Constance Collier, actress and acting coach (1878-1955), theatrical studio portrait, in role as Maggie Jocelyn, in The Shop Girl, a musical comedy by H. J. W. Dam. Date: 1895

Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester
Husband and wife, actors Charles Laughton (1899-1962) and Elsa Lanchester (1902-1986). At the time they were respectively playing Henry VIII

Sepha Treble, actress, (1908-1995), studio portrait wearing black mantilla. Captioned, Black and Ivory'. With description, Sepha Treble Wears a Mantilla; A black dress and a black lace mantilla

Photograph of Claudette Colbert (1903-1996), actress and Fredric March (1897-1975), actor in "To-night is Ours"

Florence Desmond, impersonator, as Marlene Dietrich, in top hat, with cigarette. With description, Florence Desmond is one of the cleverest impersonators there are about at present

Photographs of young actress in a film and theatre production, Manuela'. Captioned, Children in Uniform: Two Manuelas'

Carol Goodner, actress, (1904-2001) theatrical studio portraits. Captioned, Almost a Lady'. With description, Carol Goodner is making a great success of her part as Kitty Packard in "Dinner

Charles Laughton, Tetsu Komai, actors, theatrical portraits. Captioned, This is Charles Laughton, in "If I had a Million", and this is Tetsu Komai, the Japanese actor

Joan Crawford as Sadie Thompson, in Rain, enhanced colour photograph. With description, Joan Crawford got a big break when she was given the part of Sadie Thompson, in "Rain

Anna May Wong, actress, studio portrait with top hat and cane. With description, A fantastic camera-study of this well-known actress by Cannons, the English photographer of Hollywood

Noel Coward and Alfred Lunt, on balcony, Design for Living, theatrical portrait. With description, Meet Noel Coward and Alfred Lunt on a balcony

Madelaine Carroll, actress (1906-1987), studio portrait. With description, A fascinating study of a fascinating person: Madeleine Carroll, who has, for the moment, deserted the stage for the screen

Photograph of Clark Gable, Norma Shearer in The Strange Interval'film. With description, Clark Gable and Norma Shearer are hardly recognisable to their fans in "Strange Interval

Lilian Harvey, actress, studio portrait, and tearful reportage photograph when leaving Berlin for Fox Studios, Hollywood. Captioned, Oh Hollywood, What hast though done

Caricature illustrations of Alfred Lester, actor and comedian (1874-1925), by Hynes. Captioned, Our Lester Selection'

Vera Lennox, actress, (1903-1984) theatrical portrait in jodhpurs and boots. Captioned, A Primrose by the River's Brim'

Elizabeth Arkell, (1891?-1962) actress, seated studio portrait. Captioned, A Portrait from Theatreland'. With description, Who has scored many successes in child parts

Hamlet at the Haymarket Theatre, theatrical portraits. With description, Miss Constance Collier as the Queen and Mr John Barrymore, the famous American actor-manager

Dorothy Hurst, actress, theatrical studio portrait, kneeling, in pale costume with down trim. Captioned, Just By the Way!'

Enid Stamp Taylor, actress, theatrical studio portrait in velvet costume astride upholstered bench. Captioned, Part of the Punch'

Goat expresses opinion on Margaret Thatcher
A white goat expresses its opinion on Margaret Thatcher, British Conservative Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. Its cardboard handwritten notice reads: Stop acting the goat

Benazir Bhutto addressing a public meeting
Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), the then acting Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), addressing a public meeting. She later became Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988-1990, 1993-1996)

Alice in Wonderland Mad Hatters tea party starring Marie Studholme as Alice and Stanley Brett as the Mad Hatter at The Prince of Wales Theatre, West End, London. Date: 1907

CHILD LABOUR IN MINES
Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts showing children working down the mines, with a small boy acting as a "trapper" opening an air door for a truck to 1841

Hydeyoshi Power Events Japan 1580s Prince Hideyoshi
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NOEL COWARD Acting in his own play, The Young Idea, with Ann Trevor in 1923 Date: 1899 - 1973

Stella Harf - German stage and film actress
Stella Harf (nee Gertrud Weibrecht) (1890-1979) - German stage and film actress. Date: circa 1925

Ricardo Cortez - American silent film actor
Ricardo Cortez (Jacob Krantz) (1900-1977) - American silent film actor, shown here in the role of Paris in The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927). Date: 1927

Adrienne Adele Augarde (1882-1913) - an English actress and singer popular for nearly a decade on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, primarily for her roles in Edwardian musical comedy

Samuel Foote (1720-1777), a British dramatist, actor and theatre manager from Cornwall. He was known for his comedic acting and writing

Dick Whittington at the London Hippodrome, 1903
Dick Whittington at the London Hippodrome in 1903. Top left, Dick and his sweetheart played by Ruth Lytton and Fanny Dango. Top right, Dick with his cat (played by Mr Fred Farren Jnr)

Behind the scenes at the London Hippodrome, Bow Bells
Behind the scenes in Bow Bells at the London Hippodrome, 1932. Robert Hale and his daughter Binnie are seen chatting in the wings with the production and stage director, Charles Henry. Date: 1932

Cartoon, A candidate for the new acting academy - The Church is no longer the only Profession open to the Fool of the Family. 1880s

Voice audition for female role in a musical 1908
Illustration of a voice-trial for a female role in a musical comedy, with Stanley Wade and Merlin Morgan shown judging the auditions for Mr George Edwardes theatre companies

Cartoon, Mr J H Cobbe, Acting Manager at the Princesss Theatre, London. 1885

Portrait, Mr C A Jecks, Acting Manager, Adelphi Theatre, London. 1885

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