(Elsie) Evelyn Laye
(1900-1996), Actress and singerSitter associated with 58 portraits
Evelyn Laye first appeared in a minor role at The Gaiety Theatre in The Beauty Spot (1917), but the following year she achieved stardom in Going Up!, one of the first aviation musicals. In 1920 she was Bessie Brent in a revival of the first Gaiety musical-comedy, The Shop Girl. A favourite on both sides of the Atlantic, when she made her Broadway debut in the first American production of Noël Coward's Bitter Sweet in 1929, a New York critic described her as 'the loveliest prima donna this side of heaven'. One of her last appearances was in Sondheim's A Little Night Music in 1979.
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 12 July 1917
NPG x26886
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 12 July 1917
NPG x26885
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 12 July 1917
NPG x26887
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 7 June 1918
NPG x16549
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, June 1918
NPG x16545
by Edmund Harrington
chlorobromide print, 1920s
NPG x133220
by Bassano Ltd, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 1920s
NPG x193885
by Dudley Glanfield
half-plate glass negative, late 1920s
NPG x198700
by Dudley Glanfield
half-plate glass negative, late 1920s
NPG x198702
by Janet Jevons
bromide postcard print, 1920s
NPG x198125
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 7 September 1922
NPG x26892
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1 February 1924
NPG x127841
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1 February 1924
NPG x127842
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1 February 1924
NPG x127843
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 15 February 1924
NPG x127844
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 15 February 1924
NPG x127845
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 15 February 1924
NPG x127846
(Elsie) Evelyn Laye as a terrible Turk in 'Madame Pompadour'
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 1924
NPG x85154
Evelyn Laye as Sarah in 'Bitter Sweet'
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1929
NPG x194035
by Dudley Glanfield
toned bromide print, early 1930s
NPG x45491
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