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Trois Cents Dinner, ParisActors Tino Rossi (1907-1983), Mireille Balin (1909-1968), Corin Luchaire (1921-1950), Michele Morgan (1920-2016) and Marcelle Chantal (1901-1960)
Faust by Stephen Phillips and J. Comyns Carr. First produced at His Majestys Theatre, London on 5th September 1908. Mr Tree as Mephistopheles. Mr Henry Ainley as Faust
Maud Jeffries and Wilson Barrett in The Sign of the CrossMaud Jeffries (1869-1946) as " Mercia" and Wilson Barrett (1846-1904) as " Marcus" in " The Sign of the Cross" an 1895 four-act historical tragedy
Tatler cover - Maxine Elliott & Charlie ChaplinFront cover of The Tatler featuring a photograph of American-born actress Maxine Elliott with Charlie Chaplin. Date: 1919
Hugh Williams and Margaret Vyners weddingBritish actor Hugh Williams and Australian stage and screen actress Margaret Vyner photographed on their wedding day. 1940
The Bells, by Leopold Lewis, starring Henry IrvingThe Bells, by Leopold Lewis, first produced at the Lyceum Theatre, London, November 1871. Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905) was identified with the role of Mathias in this play more than with any other
As You Like It, by William Shakespeare, the Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton (seen here as Rosalind) 1907-8 season at His Majestys Theatre, London (they also played Othello, The Taming of the Shrew)
Sketch cover - Miss Mabel BeardsleyMabel Beardsley (24 August 1871 - 8 May 1916) English Victorian actress, and elder sister of the famous illustrator, Aubrey Beardsley, who according to her brothers biographer
Caroline by W Somerset Maugham, first produced at the New Theatre London, February 1916. Leaning on the chair back, Dr Cunningham addresses Isabella Trench, Maude Fulton
Cartoon, Edward Compton, performerCartoon, Edward Compton, as Charles Goldfinch, in The Road to Ruin. 1884
Proscenium Arch, Pantheon Theatre, London. 1815
At the Play, Henry Irving at The Lyceum, LondonIllustration, At the Play. On the stage of the Lyceum Theatre, London, is Henry Irving, probably in the role of Hamlet. Audience members include the Prince and Princess of Wales, Benjamin Disraeli
Miss Jeanne De Casalis and Mr Tom Douglas by Einar NermanIn " Fata Morgana" Miss Jeanne De Casalis and Mr Tom Douglas by Einar Nermans (1888-1983). Illustration showing the actors dressed in romantic attire while playing as Mathilde Fay
Flo Hastings and Wee Georgie WoodLate 19th/early 20th century music hall performers Flo Hastings (1880-?) and Wee Georgie Wood (1894-1979), attending a screening of rare clips of early music hall acts at the National Film Theatre in
Caricature of Herbert Campbell, comedian and actorCaricature of Herbert Campbell (real name Herbert Edward Story, 1844-1904), English comedian and actor. 1880
Caricature, Oscar Wilde as RomeoCaricature, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) in the role of Romeo -- an American newspaper had recently reported that this was about to happen. 1883
Portrait of Harry Cox, English actorPortrait of Harry Cox (Oliver James Bussley, ?1841-18??), English actor. 1882
Caricature of the actor Alfred Maltby, in the role of Mr Dawson in the play Betsy by F C Burnand. circa 1880s
Lily Elsie and Bobby Howes in The Blue TrainLily Elsie and Bobby Howes in a scene from musical comedy The Blue Train, playing at the Prince of Waless Theatre in 1927 and marking a return to the stage of Lily Elsie after ten years
Actors performing, Minack Theatre, Penzance, CornwallActors performing to an audience at the open air Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Penzance, Cornwall. The production was The Yeomen of the Guard by Gilbert and Sullivan. Date: circa 1970s
Sir Laurence Olivier aged 15 playing Kate in Taming of ShrewSir Laurence Olivier in his first leading Shakespearian role - Katharine in Taming of the Shrew at All Saints Choir School, Margaret Street, London and Stratford-on-Avon in April 1922
Tatler front cover - Julia LockwoodFront cover of The Tatler featuring Julia Lockwood, 23-year-old actress daughter of Margaret Lockwood, seated on a high stool studying a script. Date: 1965
The Wages of Sin written by Andrew SachsThe Wages of Sin or Perfidious Piecework written by Andrew Sachs actor and produced by the Tower Theatre Date: 1984
Edmund Gurney as Alfred Doolittle in Pygmalion, 1914Impression of Edmund Gurney in the role of Alfred Doolittle in the George Bernard Shaw play, Pygmalion, which opened in London at His Majestys Theatre on 11 April 1914. Date: 1914
ITALY. Pompeii. House of Casca Longus. Actors wearing masks in a theatrical scene. 1st century A.D. Roman art. Early Empire. Fresco
Laurence Irving & Mabel Hackney, lost in Empress of IrelandMr Laurence Irving, actor and playwright, and his wife, the actress Miss Mabel Hackney, who both died in the Empress of Ireland disaster. 1914
Tatler cover - Henry Ainley and his new wifeHenry Hinchliffe Ainley (1879-1945) English Shakespearean stage and screen actor, , pictured in uniform in 1918 with his new bride, second wife Elaine Fearon. The marriage would later be dissolved
Gone With the Wind actorsThree of the lead actors chosen to star in the much-anticipated film version of Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, shown reading through the script - Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O Hara
Sale at Selfridges in aid of Belgian refugeesFamous actors and actresses selling chocolate in Selfridges department store on Oxford Street, London, to raise funds for King Alberts Belgium Relief Fund during World War One
Tallulah Bankhead and Leslie Howard in Her Cardboard LoverTallulah Bankhead and Leslie Howard appearing in in Her Cardboard Lover at the Lyric Theatre, London in 1928. Date: 1928
Theatre - Play - The Assassin - Duel scene between Prince Demetri and Countess Wanda Date: 1904
China - Chinese Actors in elaborate costumes Date: 1910s
In Marble Halls - Jobbing actors chatting in a theatre bar" In Marble Halls" - Jobbing actors standing in a theatre bar discussing their fortune, both successful and not
Cartoon, Walter Joyce, English actor -- The Man Opposite. 1884
Dick Whittington. The Pavilion Theatre in TorquayDick Whittington. Second page of four-page flyer for The Pavilion in Torquay on 26th December 1939 for 3 weeks. Headed " Laughter
Cinderella Flyer for the Theatre Royal in HuddersfieldCinderella. Page three of an eight page flyer for the Theatre Royal in Huddersfield on 24th December 1930. Here we see photos of the three stars, Rosa Stoakes as Cinderella
Hugh Wakefield by Giuseppe AmisaniPortrait of English actor Hugh Wakefield (1888-1971), possessing, according to The Sketch in which this painting was reproduced, a genius for the portrayal of inoffensive inebriates
Amateur theatre performance, The Pyjama Game. Date: circa 1980s
Theatre Rotto, Sancreed Village Hall, Penzance, CornwallTheatre Rotto in action, Sancreed Village Hall, Sancreed, near Penzance, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s
Street theatre on the beach, St Ives, Cornwall -- five actors (male and female) from the National Theatre Company, Bath, in teeshirts and miniskirts holding boxes of Kelloggs Cornflakes
Actors performing in The Land of Hearts DesireMiss Winifred Fraser, as Maire Bruin, and Miss Dorothy Paget, as a fairy child, performing in The Land of Hearts Desire, by William Butler Yeats. Date: 1894
Forbes Robertson and Patrick CampbellForbes Robertson (1853 - 1937) and Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1865 b 1940). Johnston Forbes Robertson was an English actor and theatre manager
Lewis (Kate Terry) and Mabel Terry-LewisLewis, previously Miss Kate Terry (1844 - 1924), English actress and member of the Terry-Gielgud dynsasty of actors. Pictured here with her daughter: Mabel Gwynedd Terry-Lewis (1872 - 1957)
Charles Wyndham, actor-manager (1837-1919) pictured in The Sketch at the time of the opening of his theatre, Wyndhams Theatre in 1899
Group of native actors, Sierra Leone, West AfricaGroup of native actors in costume for a Mendi play, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Date: circa 1920
The Bells, by Leopold Lewis, starring H B IrvingThe Bells, by Leopold Lewis, first produced at the Lyceum Theatre, London, November 1871. Pictured here is Harry Brodribb Irving (1870-1919) in the role of Mathias
The Belle of Brittany, by Leedham Bantock and P J Barrow, with music by Howard Talbot. First produced at the Queens Theatre, London, October 1908
Beethoven, a play by Rene Fauchois, freely adapted by Louis N Parker, starring Herbert Beerbohm Tree in the title role. First produced at His Majestys Theatre, London, January 1909