Tilly Losch
(1907-1975), Dancer and actressOttilie Ethel ('Tilly') Losch
Sitter in 22 portraits
Austrian-born ballerina and actress Tilly (Ottilie) Losch danced with the Vienna State Opera Ballet (1921-8), including in Max Reinhardt's 1927 Salzburg Festival production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. She toured with Reinhardt's theatre and ballet ensemble to New York (1927-8), before founding her own company Les Ballets (1933). Losch's later career concentrated on film, and she appeared in Limelight (1936) directed by Herbert Wilcox, for whom Daniels made this publicity portrait. Her later films include The Garden of Allah (1936), The Good Earth (1937) and Duel in the Sun (1946).
by Fayer
bromide print, mid 1920s
NPG x135860
by Cecil Beaton
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 9 October 1929
NPG x137495
Tilly Losch in 'Wake Up and Dream'
by Guttenberg
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 10 April 1929
NPG x193439
published by J. Millhoff & Co Ltd
bromide cigarette card, published circa 1930
NPG x196391
Adèle Astaire (Lady Charles Cavendish) and Tilly Losch in 'The Band Wagon'
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1931
NPG x194037
Tilly Losch in 'The Band Wagon'
by Vandamm Studio
bromide print, 1931
NPG x194038
Tilly Losch as the nun in 'The Miracle'
by Sasha (Alexander Stewart)
bromide print, 15 April 1932
NPG x35380
by Yevonde
bromide print, circa 1933
On display at The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
NPG x29560
Tilly Losch as an Angel in 'Everyman'
by Unknown photographer
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 3 April 1935
NPG x193440
by Vandamm Studio
gelatin silver print, circa 1936
NPG x198536
by Ted Allan (Theos Alwyn Dunagan)
bromide print, November 1937
NPG x194039
by Planet News
bromide press print, May 1938
NPG x184085
by Horst P. Horst
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published August 1939
NPG x193311
Tilly Losch and Yvonne De Carlo on the set of 'Fandango'
by Wide World Photos
bromide press print, 1946
NPG x198311
by Floyd H. McCall
bromide press print, 25 July 1952
NPG x194437
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