Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952), Actress
Sitter associated with 84 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).
Yul Brynner; Gertrude Lawrence
by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 27 April 1951
NPG x19921
by Planet News, for United Press Associations
vintage print, 24 April 1952
NPG x184005
A Fantasy (probably Noël Coward; probably Gertrude Lawrence)
by Mark Wayner (Weiner)
lithograph, published 1931
NPG D23323
Gertrude Lawrence; Richard Stoddard Aldrich
by Dorothy Wilding
chlorobromide print, 15 February 1942
NPG x30452
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