Celebrity Collection (page 8)

Marthe Chenal - French operatic soprano
Marthe Chenal (1881-1947) French operatic soprano singer, in her time the most celebrated singer in France, frequently required to sing the Marseillaise on state occasions

Ignacy Jan Paderewski - Polish pianist, composer, statesman
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) - Polish pianist, composer and statesman. Date: circa 1903

Maria Carni, Princess Norina Matchabelli - Movie Actress
Maria Carni, Princess Norina Matchabelli (1880-1957) - Actress and Movie Star. Born Norina Gilli, she attended the Berlin Drama School of Max Reinhardt

Caricature of Movie Star Charlie Chaplin
Postcard caricature of Movie Star Charlie Chaplin Date: circa 1916

Comic Postcard - Housewives Choice! A queue of young ladies excitedly wait their turn to meet their new pop music idol at the stage door. Date: circa 1950s

Lionel Barrymore - American Actor
Lionel Barrymore (1878-1954) - American Actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. Awarded an Oscar for his performance in A Free Soul (1931). Date: 1935

Sarah Bernhardt as Zoraya in La Sorciere
French Actress Sarah Bernhardt as Zoraya in the stage play La Sorciere ( The Witch ) - Act 3. Written by Victorian Sardou and produced by Bernhadt herself. Date: 1903

English actress of stage and screen, Gladys Cooper
Portrait of a the English actress of stage and screen, Gladys Cooper (1888-1971), wearing her hair in long plaits. Date: circa 1910s

Sarah Bernhardt - French Stage Actress
Sarah Bernhardt - French Stage (and early film) Actress (1844-1923) - The Divine Sarah. Date: circa 1902

Mary Pickford - Canadian motion picture actress
Mary Pickford (1892-1979) - Canadian motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[ Date

Auguste, the First Elephant ever born in France
First Elephant ever born in France - named Auguste - on 5th August 1936 at Douai. Baptised with Champagne by the unlikely combination of pachyderm Admirers, Maurice Chevalier and Josephine Baker!!

Roosevelt visiting the Natural History Museum, London, June
Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt spent the morning of 16 June 1914 sightseeing in London, one of his destinations being the Natural History Museum

Zoe Ball launching Scout Job Week, London
Zoe Ball launching Scout Job Week near Tower Bridge, London, with a group of Scouts (boys and girls). 1996

The Dance magazine front cover 1931
Front cover of The Dance magazine featuring a stylised illustration of numerous personalities of the New York stage in the early 1930s. Date: 1931

RSS Discovery exhibition with celebrities and penguin
Scene on board RSS Discovery during an exhibition, showing the British actor John Mills, the naturalist Peter Scott (son of Captain Scott), a zoo keeper, and five Sea Scouts in polar costume

Annie Floradora - English music hall celebrity
Annie Floradora - A minor English music hall celebrity, part of a sister act around 1905 who were billed as Three Floradora Girls (see 10548013)

Ivy Floradora - English music hall celebrity
Ivy Floradora - A minor English music hall celebrity, part of a sister act around 1905 who were billed as Three Floradora Girls (see 10548015)

Air Scouts climbing on plane with Lord Olivier
Air Scouts climbing on a Fairey Albacore plane with Lieutenant/Sir Laurence Olivier. 1940s

Stepping it out at Ciros by Mundo
An impression by Mundo of some of the well-known people to grace the dance floor at Ciros Club, a popular and fashionable nightclub in Orange Street, London during the inter-war period

Players cigarettes advertisement featuring Mark Twain
Advertisement for Players Navy Cut Tobacco and cigarettes featuring American novelist, Mark Twain together with an endorsement of the beautifully cool and sweet smoking tobacco he has in his pipe

Bob Hopes home - North Hollywood
Bob Hopes home in North Hollywood, California, USA Date: circa 1939

A celebrity stands for a portrait
Bonzo, the famous canine cartoon character created by artist George Studdy in the 1920s poses for his photograph, unaware of a predetory wasp hovering above

John Noakes at Land End, Cornwall
Television Presenter John Noakes with John Mash and a canine friend at Lands End, Cornwall

Princess Diana visiting St Marys, Scilly Isles
Princess Diana on a visit to St Marys in the Isles of Scilly. She is wearing a polka dot dress and is pregnant with her first child. She appears to be bending down to speak to someone in a wheelchair

Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford Reading the Tatler and E
Douglas Fairbanks and his wife Mary Pickford pictured reading The Tatler and its sister magazine, Eve, at a charity dance given in London in aid of the funds of the Disabled Soldiers

William Ball, also known as John Bull, 1851
Engraving showing William Ball (1795-1852), an Englishman from Shropshire, who came to be nicknamed John Bull on account of his weight - 40st

Princess Bibescos Plane
The aeroplane of Princess Marthe Bibesco of Romania (1885 - 1973) causes quite a stir upon landing in England

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