Gertrude Lawrence
(1898-1952), Actress, singer and dancerGertrude Lawrence (Gertrude Alice Klasen)
Sitter associated with 101 portraits
Actress and singer, Lawrence made her stage debut in Dick Whittington in Brixton in December 1908. Lawrence achieved her first major stage success appearing opposite Noël Coward in his musical revue London Calling (1923), having first met in the Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool in 1912. The musical included one of her many signature songs 'Parisian Pierrot'. Lawrence became Coward's great muse and life-long friend, with the author writing Private Lives (1930) especially for her, and they starred together again in Coward's Tonight at 8.30 (1935).
by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 15 October 1939
NPG x29466
by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 15 October 1939
NPG x29467
by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 15 October 1939
NPG x29468
by Dorothy Wilding
print, 15 October 1939
NPG x30451
by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 15 October 1939
NPG x34795
by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 15 October 1939
NPG x34796
by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 15 October 1939
NPG x34797
by Dorothy Wilding
whole-plate film negative, 15 October 1939
NPG x35446
Gertrude Lawrence as Eliza Doolittle in 'Pygmalion'
by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 15 October 1939
NPG x19918
by Dorothy Wilding
bromide proof print, 15 October 1939
NPG x19919
Gertrude Lawrence; Richard Stoddard Aldrich
by Dorothy Wilding
chlorobromide print, 15 February 1942
NPG x30452
Gertrude Lawrence; Richard Stoddard Aldrich
by Dorothy Wilding
chlorobromide print, 15 February 1942
NPG x19917
by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 9 June 1948
NPG x29478
by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 9 June 1948
NPG x29479
by Dorothy Wilding
print on tissue and card mount, 9 June 1948
NPG x30453
by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 9 June 1948
NPG x35408
Gertrude Lawrence; Simon Elwes
by Fox Photos Ltd
bromide press print, 9 August 1949
NPG x184004
by Albert Victor Swaebe
bromide press print, 1950s
NPG x184007
by Planet News
bromide press print, 22 June 1950
NPG x184044
Yul Brynner; Gertrude Lawrence
by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 27 April 1951
NPG x19921
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