Actresses Collection (page 3)

Gertrude Lawrence
British actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy performer Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952). Around this time she was appearing in revue shows in London and New York. Date: circa 1925

Margaret Bannerman
Canadian actress Margaret Bannerman (1896-1976) appearing in Camilla States Her Case at the Globe Theatre in London. Later in 1925 her career would be interrupted when she suffered a nervous

Dorothy Seacombe (1906-1994) was a British actress who went on to have a film career. Here she is appearing in a stage production of Just Married at the Comedy Theatre. Date: circa 1925

Laura Cowie in Yoicks!
Laura Cowie (1892-1969) was a Scottish stage and silent film actress. Here she is portraying Lucrezia Borgia in the revue show Yoicks! at the Kingsway Theatre. Date: circa 1925

Flora Le Breton (1899-1951) was an English stage and silent film actress who moved to the United States in 1924. Date: circa 1924

Fay Compton With Dog
Versatile actress Fay Compton (1894-1978) was born Virginia Compton-Mackenzie. Her theatre career embraced Shakespeare, comedy, pantomime, drama and the classics, and she appeared in over 40 films

Roberta Huby
Actress Roberta Huby (1913-1995) was appearing in Dick Whittington in Blackpool. Date: 1940

Theatre goes rural
With many London theatres closed, this production of On Approval was rehearsed in a barn in Buckinghamshire, then toured the provinces. Date: 1940

Judith Barrett
American actress Judith Barrett (1909-2000), also known as Lucille Kelley and Nancy Dover. Her final film role was to be a year later in Those Were the Days! Date: circa 1939

Joan Crawford and Charles Martin
Hollywood actor Joan Crawford (1908?-1977) with Charles Martin at the theatre. Date: 1939

Virginia Field and Hal Roach, Jr
Actress Virginia Field (1917-1992) and producer Hal Roach, Jr (1918-1972) in Hollywood. Date: 1939

Anna Neagle and Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Actors Anna Neagle (1904-1986) and Sir Cedric Hardwicke (1893-1964) at supper in Hollywood. Date: 1939

Renee Houston advertising Ovaltine
Scottish actress and performer Renee Houston (1902-1980) in an advert promoting the re-vitalising effects of Ovaltine. Date: 1939

Virginia Dale
Actress Virginia Dale (1917-1994) near the beginning of her film and television career. Date: circa 1939

Jany Holt at the Marigny Theatre
Jany Holt (1909-2005), born Ruxandra Vladescu Olt, was a Romanian actress who worked extensively in French cinema. At the time of publication she was appearing in the play Box B at the Marigny

Gracie Fields at Capri
Actress Gracie Fields (1898-1979) retreated to her villa in Capri to recuperate from cervical cancer. Date: 1939

Olivia de Havilland, Franchot Tone and Joan Fontaine
Actors - and sisters - Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020) and Joan Fontaine (1917-2013) with actor Franchot Tone (1905-1968) at the Trocadero in Hollywood. Date: 1939

Ginger Rogers and David Niven
Ginger Rogers (1911-1995) and David Niven (1910-1983) in publicity for the film Bachelor Mother'. Date: 1939

Sally Eilers and Charles Laughton
Actors Sally Eilers (1908-1978) and Charles Laughton (1899-1962) at lunch. Laughton was shortly to play Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and had been tasked to lose three stone for the role

Ann Sheridan in Winter Carnival
American actress Ann Sheridan (1915-1967), real name Clara Lou Sheridan, here appearing in the film Winter Carnival'. Date: 1939

Maurice Chevalier and Marie Dea
Actors Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972) and Marie Dea (1912-1992) appearing in the film Pieges ('Personal Column'). Date: 1939

Peggy Ashcroft and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Peggy Ashcroft (1907-1991) appearing as Cecily Cardew and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (1891-1992) as Gwendolyn Fairfax, in a production of The Importance of Being Earnest at the Globe Theatre. Date: 1939

Lili Damita and Errol Flynn
Hollywood actress Lili Damita (1904-1994) had retired from film-making by the time of this photograph. Here she is with her husband Errol Flynn (1909-1959). Date: 1939

A Gone With The Wind party
Actress Vivien Leigh (1913-1967), film producer David O. Selznick (1902-1965) and actress Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020) at the Trocadero

J. B. Priestley and Joyce Barbour
Writer J.B. Priestley (1894-1984) and actress Joyce Barbour (1901-1977), team captains in an actresses versus authors cricket match in Regent's Park. Date: 1939

Writer A. P. Herbert, bowling
Writer A.P. Herbert (1890-1971) bowling during an actresses versus authors cricket match in Regent's Park. Date: 1939

Ulla Poulson Skou, Danish ballerina
Ulla Poulson Skou (1905-2001) the Danish ballerina and actress. Date: circa 1939

Ursula Jeans and Alec Waugh, cricketing
Actress Ursula Jeans (1906-1973) and novelist Alec Waugh (1898-1981) in an actresses versus authors cricket match in Regent's Park. Date: 1939

Gracie Fields (1898-1979) in Shipyard Sally'. Date: 1939

Loretta Young and Jimmie Stewart
Holloywood stars Loretta Young (1913-2000) and James Jimmie Stewart (1908-1997) at Cafe Victor Hugo. Date: 1939

Dorothy Lamour
Hollywood actress and singer Dorothy Lamour (1914-1996), perhaps best known for her roles in the Road to... movies. Date: circa 1939

Ann Sheridan (1915-1967) was an American actress and singer, born Clara Sheridan. Here she is being celebrated for her first starring role in Winter Carnival

Actress Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo (1905-1990) sporting her long bob hairstyle. Date: circa 1939

The cast of Weep For Spring
Actors Stephen Haggard (1911-1943), Athene Seyler (1889-1990), Peggy Ashcroft (1907-1991)and Nicholas Hannen (1881-1972) in a publicity photograph for the play Weep For Spring

Cary Grant and Lucile Fairbanks
Hollywood stars Cary Grant (1904-1986) and Lucile Fairbanks (1917-1999) at the Clover Club. Date: 1939

Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) the American actress, wearing what was viewed at the time as relatively masculine clothing. Date: 1939

British actress Anna Neagle (1904-1986), later made a Dame, and born Florence Wilcox. This publicity photograph is from her first Hollywood outing

Ginger Rogers
American actress, singer and dancer Ginger Rogers (1911-1995). At this period of her career she was developing her reputation as a nonmusical actor. Date: circa 1939

Maria Luisa Castaneda, or Movita
American actress Maria Luisa Castaneda (1916-2015), also known as Movita. She appeared in films such as Flying Down to Rio and Mutiny on the Bounty At the time, she is Mrs Jack Doyle

British actors at a microphone
British actors Greer Garson (1904-1996), Leslie Howard (1893-1943), Vivien Leigh (1913-1967), Brian Aherne (1902-1986), Ronald Coleman (1891-1958) and Basil Rathbone (1892-1967) in Hollywood

Actress Valli Valli
Born Valli Knust in Berlin, Valli Valli (1882-1927) spent most of her life in England. She was a musical comedy actress who later made a transition into silent films. Date: circa 1910

Cecile Sorel, French actress
Cecile Sorel (1873-1966) was a French comic actress, noted for her extravagant costumes, and here being feted as the best dressed woman in Europe. Date: circa 1910

Marie -Louise Derval, actress
Marie-Louise Derval was a French actress, who went on to have a career in silent film. Here she is depicted in a Russian costume she wore when being presented to the Czar. Date: circa 1910

Fred Terry and his daughter Phillida Terson
Fred Terry (1863-1933) was an English actor and theatrical manager. Here he is seen with his daughter Phyllis Neilson-Terry (1892-1977) who was then performing under the name of Phillida Terson

Sir Herbert Tree and Miss Evelyn Millard
Sir Herbert Tree (1852-1917) as Mark Antony and Miss Evelyn Millard (1869-1941) as Portia, in publicity for a production of Julius Caesar at His Majesty's Theatre in London. Date: 1910

Gabrielle Rejane, French actress
Publicity photograph for Madame Gabrielle Rejane (1856-1920), a French actress, visiting London to perform in the play Lolotte at the Hippodrome. Date: circa 1910

Gaby Deslys, variety star
Gaby Deslys (1881-1920), a French singer, actress and variety star. These photographs are being used to publicize her appearance in Les Caprices de Suzette at the Alhambra Theatre in London

Nina Mae McKinney, actress (1912-1967), studio portraits in elegant gowns. Captioned, That Harlem Rhythm: Miss Nina Mae McKinney makes Her London Break'

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