Film Collection (#53)

Empire Cinema, Leicester Square, London
The Empire Cinema, Leicester Square, London, where Robert Montgomery is appearing in the MGM film, Lovers Courageous. Date: circa 1932

Robert Montgomery, American film, stage and TV actor
Robert Montgomery (1904-1981), American film, stage and TV actor, director and producer. Date: circa 1930s

Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor
Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972), French singer and film actor. circa 1930s

Suffragette Silent Film The Hunger Strike. A still from the 1913 silent film comedy The Hunger Strike. Starring music hall favourite Emund Payne (1863-1914) as a suffragette

Firefighter in a flying bomb film, WW2
Firefighter in a flying bomb film -- taking a moment to relax after a job well done. Date: 1944

Rescue following flying bomb attack, London, WW2
Rescue following a flying bomb attack -- a man and a woman at basement window, calling for help. (1 of 4) Date: 1944

Society ladies in The Great Love - patriotic war film, WW1
A double page spread from The Sketch magazine showing four scenes from the patriotic war film, The Great Love. Directed by D. W

Rescue following V2 rocket attack, Manor Park, London, WW2
Rescue of a woman following a V2 rocket attack in Manor Park. Although many rescues took place, hundreds of Londoners died in these attacks, launched in the latter stages of WW2

London Fire Brigade cinematographer at work
London Fire Brigade fireman-cinematographer at work, filming a fierce fire at the warehouse of Messrs Cameron and Co, Upper Thames Street, City of London, 28 June 1939. Date: 1939

Eve from The Tatler becomes a film star, 1918
A sketch by Annie Fish to illustrate the Letters of Eve column in The Tatler magazine showing the fictional gossip columnist heroine in her new role - as a film star

Eileen Molyneux as Eve from The Tatler on film
Eileen Molyneux (1893-1962), actress, pictured in 1918, in character, when she had been chosen to star in a series of twelve silent comedy films, called The Adventures of Eve

Dignity & Impudence by H. M. Bateman
An arrogant looking taxi cab driver, enjoys a rest and a cigar, ignoring the signal of a potential customer across the street - a humorous comment on the attitude of London taxi drivers during

Mons - The History of the Immortal Retreat
A Premier Presentation Brochure for Mons - The History of the Immortal Retreat directed by Captain Walter Summers, produced by British Instructional Films Limited

An Englishmans Home filmed, WW1
Scenes from the film version of the stage play, An Englishmans Home, produced by B and C Film in 1914. Originally written by Guy du Maurier (who was killed in action in 1915)

The Education of the Masses, War Economy, Douglas MacKenzie
Illustration showing the mass of entertainment and amusements on offer to the London population during the First World War, despite the fact the country was supposed to be practising war economy

Tatler cover - Charlie Chaplin in A Dogs Life
Front cover of The Tatler featuring worlds greatest cinema artist, Charlie Chaplin appearing in a scene from his latest film, A Dogs Life. Date: 1918

Charlie Chaplin and Ian Hay
Charlie Chaplin being interviewed in his studio by, on the right, Major Ian Hay Beith, (Ian Hay, the author of the First Hundred Thousand)

Eileen Molyneux (1893-1962), actress, pictured in 1918, when she had been chosen to star in a series of twelve silent comedy films, called The Adventures of Eve

Jessie Winter and son reading The Tatler
Miss Jessie Winter (1885-1971), in private life, Mrs Austin Melford, pictured reading The Tatler with her little son. Pictured at the time she was appearing in a series of cinema plays

Tatler cover - Charlie Chaplin
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a portrait of Charlie Chaplin (Sir Charles Spencer) English comedian and actor (1889-1977)

Annette Kellerman in Queen of the Seas
Annette Marie Sarah Kellerman (18861975) - Australian swimmer, film star, and writer. One of the first women to wear a one-piece bathing costume, causing a minor scandal at the time

Betty Blythe in the film Le Puits de Jacob (Jacobs Well / A Daughter of Israel) from Paris Plaisirs number 43, February 1926 Date: 1926

Cover for Paris Plaisirs number 95, May 1930 featuring Kay Francis in a Paramount film Date: 1930

Film, wireless and gramophone in the home by G. H. Davis
Talkies a self-contained cinema, gramophone and radio-set for household use, mechanism of synchrophone. Date: 1931

Marie Prevost in 1928
Marie Prevost (1898 1937) Canadian silent film actress. Date: 1928

Travelling cinematograph with Austrian army, WW1
A travelling cinematograph for the troops near the Isonzo front during the First World War. Date: 1916

A Theatre for War Workers, WW1
Interior view of a picture and variety theatre built by the firm Messrs. Vickers, Ltd, of Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness in order to provide recreation for their workers during the First World War

The Better Ole as a Film Play, 1918
Scenes from the film version of The Better Ole, a 1918 Welsh Pearson film based the cartoons of trench life by Bruce Bairnsfather published in The Bystander magazine

Marie Prevost in 1923
Marie Prevost (1898 - 1937), Canadian silent film actress. Photographed here in the Stroll Picture Threatre in " Brass". 1923

Mae Murray (1889 1965), American actress, dancer, film screenwriter and producer. Here performing in Fascination Date: 1924

Cast and crew on a film set -- a man and woman sit at a table, while another man holds up a slate (Shot 11, Set 3). Date: 20th century

Filming the 1937 Coronation
A diagrammatic drawing by Douglas Macpherson of the window constructed behind the tomb of St Aymer de Valence in the Abbey sanctuary

Ann Todd in 1938
Dorothy Anne Todd (1909 - 1993), English actress of stage and screen. Photographed here in a play called Flood Tide, based on a novel by A. P. Herbert The House by the River. Date: 1938

Nina Vanna by Madame Yevonde
Nina Vanna (Nina Yasikova Kind Hakim Provatoroff, 1899-1953) by Madame Yevonde. She was a Russian-born British film and theatre actress

Betty Stockfield, English actress
Betty Stockfield or Stockfeld (1905-1966), English actress of stage and screen. Date: 1933

Valerie Taylor by Madame Yevonde
Valerie Taylor (1902-1988) by Madame Yevonde. She was an English actress of stage and screen who had just returned to England from Hollywood. She was married to the actor Hugh Sinclair. Date: 1933

Dorothy Bouchier by Madame Yevonde
Dorothy (or Chili) Bouchier (1909-1999) by Madame Yevonde. She was a British film and stage actress. Seen here modelling a draped turban by Lady Victor Paget. Date: 1932

Helen Vinson in 1935
Helen Vinson (1907 1999), American film actress. Photographed here of the announcement of her marriage to the lawn-tennis champion, Fred Perry in New York. Date: 1935

Douglas Fairbanks - American actor, director & producer
Douglas Fairbanks (18831939) - American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. Date: 1926

Charlie Chaplin - English comic actor
Charles Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) - English comic film actor, director and composer, most notably of the silent film era. Date: 1926

Silhouette portrait of Charles Coborn, music hall performer
Silhouette portrait of Charles Coborn (1852-1945), music hall singer and comedian. Date: circa 1910s

Advert for Ensign camera 1919
10/- will buy this camera for your son. Six bright little pictures from every spool. Loads in daylight. Date: 1919

From the Manger to the Cross, the Kiss of Judas
Scene from the silent movie, From the Manger to the Cross, or Jesus of Nazareth, showing Judas kissing Jesus in order to betray him. Date: 1912

Jean Simmons and Donald Houston on location for the film, The Blue Lagoon (released 1949). Seen here plotting their position on the ship, Royal Flight. Date: circa 1949

Entrance, Mary Pickford Studios, Hollywood, USA
Entrance to Mary Pickford Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. Date: 20th century

Aerial view, Robin Hood set and studio, Hollywood, USA
Aerial view of the set and Fairbanks-Pickford Studios in Hollywood, USA, for the film, Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (released 1922), one of the most expensive Hollywood films of the 1920s

Set for Robin Hood film, Hollywood, USA
Part of the set (the castle drawbridge) for the film, Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (released 1922), one of the most expensive Hollywood films of the 1920s. Date: circa 1922

Preparing to film The Thief of Bagdad, Hollywood, USA
Preparing to film The Thief of Bagdad (released in 1924), adapted from the Arabian Nights stories. Parts of the set, and prop items such as large jars, can be seen. Date: 1923

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