Renee Houston; Margaret Lockwood; Hugh Sinclair; Lilli Palmer
1 portrait by Anthony Buckley
Renee Houston; Margaret Lockwood; Hugh Sinclair; Lilli Palmer
by Anthony Buckley
modern bromide print from original negative, 1938
11 7/8 in. x 14 3/4 in. (301 mm x 374 mm)
Bequeathed by Kenneth Hughes, 1995
Photographs Collection
NPG x75895
Sittersback to top
- Renee Houston (1902-1980), Actress. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Margaret Lockwood (1916-1990), Actress. Sitter in 14 portraits. Identify
- Lilli Palmer (Lilli Marie Peiser) (1914-1986), Actress. Sitter in 4 portraits. Identify
- Hugh Sinclair (1903-1962), Actor. Sitter in 6 portraits. Identify
Artistback to top
- Anthony Buckley (1912-1993), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 215 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
This portraitback to top
Four of the cast; Renee Houston; Margaret Lockwood; Hugh Sinclair; Lilli Palmer, from the successful British comedy drama. The film was directed by Carol Reed with a script by Frank Launder from Emery Bonnet's novel. The plot sees Lockwood whisked from a fashionable girls' school in Switzerland to a London night-club, and into the arms of Hugh Sinclair. Houston and Palmer play her classmates.
Events of 1938back to top
Current affairs
Britain pursues its policy of appeasement. At the Munich Agreement, Britain, France and Italy agreed to allow Hitler to seize the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia. The agreement was seen at the time as a triumph for peace, with Neville Chamberlain returning home brandishing the paper agreement and saying 'peace for our time.' Within six months Germany had occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia.Art and science
Graham Greene publishes Brighton Rock. The novel follows the descent of Pinky, a teenage gang leader in Brighton's criminal underworld. The book examines the criminal mind and explores the themes of morality and sin - recurrent concerns for the Roman Catholic Author.Glasgow hosts the Empire Exhibition; an £11 million celebration of the British Empire visited by 13 million people.
International
In its pursuit of 'Lebensraum' (living space), Germany annexes Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia with little opposition from the League of Nations. At home, the Nazis continued their escalating persecution of the Jews with 'Kristallnacht' (the Night of Broken Glass), attacking Jewish homes, shops, businesses and synagogues, and taking Jewish men to concentration camps.Comments back to top
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