Camille Clifford (Camilla Antoinette Clifford)
(1888-1970), Actress; former wife of Hon. Henry Lyndhurst Bruce, and later wife of John Meredith EvansSitter in 34 portraits
Although born in Denmark, she made her stage debut in the chorus of The Defender in New York, 1902. She came to London, where her beauty caused a sensation; hailed as the epitome of the 'Gibson Girl', the ideal created by the American artist Charles Dana Gibson. In 1905 Leslie Stiles wrote a song for her, 'Why Do They Call Me A Gibson Girl?' . Parts followed in The Catch of the Season (1905), and The Belle of Mayfair (1906). She retired to marry the Hon. Lyndhurst Henry Bruce, but made a brief return to the stage in The Girl of the Future in 1916. Thereafter she abandoned the theatre, and to all enquiries, her secretary would reply with, 'Mrs Bruce has no wish to discuss the past'.
Camille Clifford (Camilla Antoinette Clifford)
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 1906
NPG x83027
Camille Clifford (Camilla Antoinette Clifford)
by Bassano Ltd, published by The Philco Publishing Co
bromide postcard print, 1910s
NPG x193683
Camille Clifford (Camilla Antoinette Clifford)
by Bassano Ltd, published by Davidson Brothers
bromide postcard print, 1910s
NPG x193684
Camille Clifford (Camilla Antoinette Clifford)
by and after Bassano Ltd
printing-out paper print, 1914
NPG Ax136981
Camille Clifford (Camilla Antoinette Clifford)
by Bassano Ltd
vintage bromide print on cream photographer's folder, 22 May 1916
NPG x127503
Camille Clifford (Camilla Antoinette Clifford)
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 22 May 1916
NPG x22150
Camille Clifford (Camilla Antoinette Clifford)
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 22 May 1916
NPG x22151
Camille Clifford (Camilla Antoinette Clifford)
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 22 May 1916
NPG x22152
Camille Clifford (Camilla Antoinette Clifford)
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 22 May 1916
NPG x22153
Camille Clifford (Camilla Antoinette Clifford)
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 22 May 1916
NPG x22154
Camille Clifford (Camilla Antoinette Clifford)
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 22 May 1916
NPG x22155
Camille Clifford (Camilla Antoinette Clifford)
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 22 May 1916
NPG x22156
Camille Clifford (Camilla Antoinette Clifford)
by Bassano Ltd, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 22 May 1916
NPG x193682
Camille Clifford (Camilla Antoinette Clifford)
by Bassano Ltd
12 x 10 inch glass plate negative, 1911
NPG x95738
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