Acting Collection (page 93)

Clark Gable, Academy Award-winning American film actor. Gable (1901-1960) was the biggest box office star of the early sound film era

Performance of The Gay Gordons, c1907. Misss Fairbrother as Charlotte Siddons, AW Baskcome as Edmund Siddons, Fred Emney as Nervy Nat

Ellaline Terriss and Seymour Hicks in The Gay Gordons, c1907. Terriss as Peggy Quainton and Hicks as Angus Graeme. Hicks and Terriss married in 1893

Lily Elsie and Joseph Coyne in The Merry Widow, c1907. Elsie as Sonia (the Merry Widow) and Coyne as Prince Danilo. The English adaptation of Franz Lehars operetta, with lyrics by Adrian Ross

Julia Neilson and Fred Terry in The Scarlet Pimpernel, c1905. Artist: Ellis & Walery
Julia Neilson and Fred Terry in The Scarlet Pimpernel, c1905. Terry and Neilson starred in the play, set during the French Revolution, at Londons New Theatre in 1905

Mabel Hackney and Laurence Irving, 1907. Artist: J Beagles & Co
Mabel Hackney and Laurence Irving, 1907. The son of the actor and theatre manager Henry Irving, Laurence Irving was a dramatist and novelist. He married Mabel Hackney, an actress

Miss Lily Elsie and Mr George Graves in The Merry Widow, 20th century
Lily Elsie and George Graves in The Merry Widow, c1907. Elsie as Sonia, and Graves as Baron Popoff. Allow me to escort you

The Scarlet Pimpernel, 20th century. Artist: Ellis & Walery
Scene from The Scarlet Pimpernel, c1905. Julia Neilson, Fred Terry, Horace Hodges, Malcolm Cherry and Alfred Kendrick. The play, set during the French Revolution

Julia Neilson and Horace Hodges in The Scarlet Pimpernel, c1905. Artist: Ellis & Walery
Julia Neilson and Horace Hodges in The Scarlet Pimpernel, c1905. Neilson and Hodges starred with Fred Terry in the play, set during the French Revolution, at Londons New Theatre in 1905

Julia Neilson, Fred Terry and Horace Hodges in The Scarlet Pimpernel, c1905. Artist: Ellis & Walery
Julia Neilson, Fred Terry and Horace Hodges in The Scarlet Pimpernel, c1905. The play, set during the French Revolution, opened at Londons New Theatre in January 1905

Scene from Quality Street, 1902. Artist: Bassano Studio
Scene from Quality Street, 1902. Seymour Hicks as Dr Valentine Brown in search of grey hairs in JM Barries play

Brigitte Helm and Karl Ludwig Diehl, German film actors, 1930s

Paula Wessely and Willi Forst, Austrian film actors, 1934. Wessely and Forst starring as Grand Duchess Marie Louise and Franz, Duke of Modena in So endete eine Liebe (So Ended a Great Love)

Paula Wessely, Austrian actress and film star, 20th century

Gustav Diessl, Austrian artist, and film and stage actor, 20th century. Artist: Sandau
Gustav Diessl, Austrian artist, and film and stage actor, 20th century. Diessl is best remembered for his role in the mountaineering drama The White Hell of Piz Palu (1929)

Performance of Richard Wagners opera Lohengrin (act III, scene III), 1907. Artist: Schwalb
Performance of Richard Wagners opera Lohengrin (act III, scene III), 1907. On distant shore to mortal feet forbidden. Wagner wrote Lohengrin in 1848

Performance of Jedermann, Salzburg Festival, Austria, 20th century. Artist: Ernst Maier
Performance of Jedermann, Salzburg Festival, Austria, 20th century. Jedermann is an adaptation by Austrian playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal of Everyman

Mr Wilkinson as Michael in Free and Easy, 1822. Artist: R Cooper
Mr Wilkinson as Michael in Free and Easy, 1822

Ferdinand and Miranda, c1900. Artist: J Caswall Smith
Ferdinand and Miranda, c1900. Basil Gill as Ferdinand and Nora Kerin as Miranda in Shakespeares The Tempest

Mr Wewitzer as Doctor Caius, 1819. Artist: Thomas Charles Wageman
Mr Wewitzer as Doctor Caius, 1819. Ralph Wewitzer (1748-1825) as a character from Shakespeares The Merry Wives of Windsor

Mr Johnstone as Major O Flaherty, 1818. Artist: Thomas Charles Wageman
Mr Johnstone as Major O Flaherty, 1818. A character from Richard Cumberlands The West Indian

Mrs W West as Cordelia, 1820. Artist: Thomas Charles Wageman
Mrs W West as Cordelia, 1820

Mrs Lillie Langtry, British actress, 1890. Artist: W&D Downey
Lillie Langtry (1853-1929), English actress, 1890. Langtry was infamous for being the semi-official mistress to the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII

Maude Millett, actress, 1890. Artist: W&D Downey
Maude Millett, actress, 1890. From The Cabinet Portrait Gallery, first series, Cassell and Company Limited (London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890)

Leading actresses of the 19th century, 1890. Artist: W&D Downey
Leading actresses of the 19th century, 1890. Pictured are Misses Atherton, Cameron, Broughton, Williamson, Branscombe, Vaughan, Hood, Gilchrist, Grubbe, D Angeli, Farren, Palmer and St John

Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), French stage actress, 1890. Artist: W&D Downey
Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), French stage actress, 1890. Bernhardt was the most famous stage actress of the 19th century.From The Cabinet Portrait Gallery, first series

Simone Simon (1910-2005), French actress, c1930s-c1940s. Simon made her screen debut in Le Chanteur Inconnu (The Unknown Singer)

Ann Sheridan (1915-1967), American actress, c1930s-c1940s. Signed to a contract by Paramount at 18, Sheridan was put into a number of small roles under her real name of Clara Lou Sheridan

Jean Harlow (1911-1937), American actress, c1930s-c1940s. Harlows big break in Hollywood came when Howard Hughes cast her in his sound remake of Hells Angels (1930)

Jessie Matthews (1907-1981), English actress, dancer and singer, c 1930s-c1940s. Signed photograph. Matthews became a big stage star in the late 1920s and 1930s

Jean Parker (1915-2005), American actress, c1930s-c1940s. Among Parkers film output are titles such as The Ghost Goes West (1935, with Robert Donat), Sequoia (1934), Little Women (1933)

Mary Pickford (1892-1979), Canadian actress, c1930s-c1940s. Pickford began her film career in 1909 working for DW Griffith

Dorothy Lamour (1914-1996), American actress, c1930s-c1940s. Lamour is perhaps best known for her roles in the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby Road films - a strange combination of adventure, slapstick

Joan Fontaine (b. 1917), American actress, c1930s-c1940s. Fontaine established her reputation in two films by director Alfred Hitchcock

Olivia de Havilland (b. 1916), American actress, c1930s-c1940s
Olivia de Havilland (b.1916), American actress, c1930s-c1940s. De Havilland made her stage debut in 1935 as Hermia in A Midsummer Nights Dream; the following year she made her film debut in the same

Jeanette MacDonald (1903-1965), American singer and actress, c1930s-c1940s. Signed photograph. In 1929 Ernst Lubitsch saw MacDonald and cast her opposite Maurice Chevalier in The Love Parade

Constance Cummings (1910-2005), American-born British actress, c1930s-c1940s. Coming from a musical family (her mother was a concert soprano)

Bonita Granville (1923-1988), American actress, c1930s-c1940s. A child star, Granville was regularly cast as a naughty little girl, as in These Three (1936) where she played Mary

Wallace Beery (1885-1949), American actor, c1930s-c1940s. A star of many silent Hollywood films, the arrival of sound saw Beery as one of the victims of the wholesale studio purge

Henry Fonda (1905-1982), American actor, c1930s-c1940s. Fonda is perhaps best remembered for his roles as Abe Lincoln in Young Mr Lincoln (1939), Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Charles Laughton (1899-1962), English actor and director, c1930s-c1940s. Laughton starred in films such as The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), for which he won a Best Actor Oscar

Ronald Colman (1891-1958), English actor, c1930s-c1940s. The star of films such as Lost Horizon and the Prisoner of Zenda (both 1937), Colman was nominated four times for the Best Actor Oscar

Brian Donlevy (1901-1972), American actor, c1930s-c1940s. Donlevy began his Hollywood career with the silent film A Man of Quality (1926) and went on to appear in over 80 films

Warner Baxter (1889-1951), American actor, c1930s-c1940s. Baxter starred in In Old Arizona (1929), the first talking Western, a role which won him the Best Actor Oscar

Robert Montgomery (1904-1981), American actor and director, c1930s-c1940s. Signed photograph. In 1937 Montgomery was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor as a psychopath in the chiller

Jack Holt (1888-1951), American actor, c1930s-1940s. Holt was a prominent leading man in silent and early talking films

Melvyn Douglas (1901-1981), American actor, c1930s-c1940s. Born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg, Douglas often played the suave sophisticate in pursuit of a beautiful woman

Robert Donat (1905-1959), British actor, c1930s-c1940s
Robert Donat (1905-1958), British actor, c1930s-c1940s. Signed photograph. Born Friedrich Robert Donath, Donat made his film debut in 1932

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