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Miss Eweretta Lawrence and Miss Grace Otway in On Change - in The Theatre Magazine, February 1886. 1886
Tallulah Bankhead, (1902 - 1968), American actress of the stage and screen, at the time known as a brilliant young actress photographed as Iris Fenwick in The Green Hat a play by Michael Arlen which
Dolly Sisters in ParisDolly Sisters, Hungarian-American identical twin dancers and actresses. Date: 1929
THEATRICAL COSTUMES / C18The Theatrical candidates 18th century Actors and Actresses Date: circa 1770
Cymbeline and Winters TaleMiss Kemble as Imogen in Cymbeline and Mrs Ward as Hermione in The Winters Tale Date: late 18th century
PANTOMIME / DRURY LANEActors, actresses and a bemused donkey in a Pantomime at Drury Lane. Date: 1877
Six Actresses in Traditional Country Girl attire - all looking like early 19th century milkmaids! Date: circa 1910s
ACTRESSES DRESSINGROOMActresses doing a quick change in their dressing room, helped by their dressers Date: circa 1895
Winifred Hare as Stella, perched precariously on a crescent moon, in The Silver Slipper at the Lyric Theatre in 1901. Date: 1901
Malibu Beach on Roosevelt Highway - Santa Monica, CaliforniaThe homes of moving picture stars on Malibu Beach on Roosevelt Highway - Santa Monica, California. Date: circa 1920s
Amateur theatrical Company presenting a historical reviewA (sadly unnamed) Amateur theatrical Company presenting a historical review, operetta or pageant - the characters/roles represented include a medieval jester, an executioner
Cast of the show Havana including a young Gladys CooperHavana - an Edwardian musical comedy in three acts, with a book by George Grossmith, Jr. and Graham Hill, music by Leslie Stuart, lyrics by Adrian Ross and additional lyrics by George Arthurs
Youthful Parisian Music Hall Revue Company pose in costume for their satirical number lampooning Emile Pataud, the deeply unpopuar (at the time) Secretary to the French Union of Electricians
Gloria Swanson and Michael Farmer at Juan les PinsActress Gloria Swanson and her husband, Michael Farmer pictured in nautical chic at the fashionable resort of Juan Les Pins on the French Riviera. Date: 1932
Carole Lombard & William Powell sailing to HonoluluAmerican actress Carole Lombard pictured on board a boat ready to set sail for Honolulu with her first husband, actor William Powell
Ethel Warwick paintingEthel Warwick (1882-1951), Stage and film actress; wife of Edmund Waller, pictured at an easel painting, wearing a very artistic looking oriental cloak
Suzy Kendall in BibaActress Suzy Kendall wearing an Empire line Biba dress in a floral print of blue, pink and lemon on black - part of a feature on One Womans Wardrobe in London Life magazine. Date: 1966
What People Are Wearing - April OlrichThe actress and ballet dancer April Olrich (1933 - 2014) wearing a real fishnet top over a body stocking and Jaeger denim hipsters with tie sides. Soleless sandals as worn in South Africa. Date: 1966
Edina Ronay FRSA (born 1944, Budapest, Hungary) Anglo-Hungarian fashion designer and former actress, the daughter of food critic Egon Ronay and mother of actress/writer Shebah Ronay
Anna Held in her peacock gownMiss Anna Held, appearing in Follow Me at the Casino in New York, displaying her spectacular peacock gown with the tail spread. Date: 1917
La Milo 1913Actress Pansy Montague, a.k.a La Milo, whose posings (as a statue) on the London stage and in various music halls around the country, provoked controversy. Date: 1913
Miss Daisy Markham sues Marquess of NorthamptonMrs Daisy Annie Moss, otherwise known as Miss Daisy Markham, actress, who successfully sued the new Marquess of Northampton for breach of promise of marriage in 1913
London Life front cover - Geraldine Chaplin at TonyaFront cover of London Life magazine, 4th/10th December 1965 featuring the actress Geraldine Chaplin (born 1944), daughter of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O Neill
Bensons jewellery advert featuring Joanna LumleyAdvertisement in the very first issue of London Life magazine, a short-lived magazine charting the social and cultural happenings of swinging sixties London
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)
Fedora by Victorien Sardou - Australian actress Marie LohrFedora by Victorien Sardou was first produced at the Theatre du Vaudeville in Paris, 12th December 1882. The English version by Herman Merivale was first produced at the Haymarket Theatre
Tatler cover - Maxine Elliott & Charlie ChaplinFront cover of The Tatler featuring a photograph of American-born actress Maxine Elliott with Charlie Chaplin. Date: 1919
Dame Ellen Terry and her daughter Edith Ailsa CraigDame Alice Ellen Terry (1847-1928) - English Stage Actress (left), pictured with her daughter Edith Ailsa Geraldine Craig (1869-1947) - a prolific theatre director, producer
Brigitte Helm sees through herselfBrigitte Helm (1908-1996), German actress best known for her role in Metropolis pictured in a double portrait combining a head shot with a full body photograph. Date: 1929
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)
Phyllis and Zena Dare with their parents and brother JackPhyllis Dare, English singer and actress (1890-1975) and her sister Zena Dare, English singer and actress (1887-1975) pictured with their Father (Arthur Albert Dones)
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
Maxine Elliott at Cannes, 1912American actress, Maxine Elliott (1868-1940), pictured walking with a friend in Cannes in 1912. Maxine is on the right. Two decades later, she would entertain many famous figures at her Riviera home
Caricature, Lillie Langtry and Henrietta HodsonCaricature, Lillie Langtry (1853-1929) and Henrietta Hodson (1841-1910) -- The best of friends must part. Hodson (referred to here as Mrs Labouchere because of her relationship with Henry Labouchere)
Peggy Carlisle (born 1904), actress pictured at the time she was starring in Hindle Wakes. Date: 1927
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
Bowman SistersThe Misses Bowman, quartette of sisters: Nellie, Empsie, Isa and Maggie. Date: 1904
Tatler front cover of Lady de Bathe (Lillie Langtry)Tatler front cover showing Lady de Bathe, Lillie Langtry, by name of Emilie Charlotte, Lady de Bathe, n饠 Le Breton, also called (187497) Emilie Charlotte Langtry (born Oct)
Photo of Ellen Terry and Mr James Carew in the TatlerBlack and white full page photograph of Ellen Terry and her husband James Carew at home in Kent, in the Tatler of 10th November 1909
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
Isabel Jeans - the subtle art of vampingIsabel Jeans (1891 1985), British actress of stage and screen pictured at the time she was appearing in a play, Cobra, at the Garrick Theatre in London in which she played a wife intent on seducing
Miss Rosie Boote - the Marchioness of HeadfortThe Marchioness of Headfort, formerly known to playgoers as Miss Rose (Rosie) Boote of the Gaiety Theatre, London. She married the Marquess in April 1901, and her son became the Earl of Bective
What People Are Wearing - Eva BartokThe Budapest-born actress Eva Bartok (1927 - 1998) wearing a red and gold dress which she designed herself and had made up in Indian sari material. Date: 1966
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
Miss Mabel LoveMabel Love (1874-1953), popular actress and professional beauty posing in a signed photograph, Date: 1929
Some leading Actresses of the late Victorian era. (from top left, going clockwise): Miss Alice Atherton (1854-1899), Miss V
Premiere of Pygmalion in London, 1914Front cover of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News reporting on the premier in London of a new play, Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw with Mrs Patrick Campbell in the role of Eliza Doolittle
Camille Clifford (1885 - 1971), Belgian-born stage actress and the most famous model for the " Gibson Girl" illustrations, drawn by Charles Dana Gibson, who married the Hon