Hermione Gingold
(1897-1987), ActressHermione Ferdinanda Gingold
Sitter in 40 portraits
Hermione Gingold first appeared on stage at the age of ten as the herald in Pinkie and the Fairies. She played many parts in the theatre and on radio in the 1930s, but she found her true home in revue. Her legendary partnership with Hermione Baddeley ('the two Hermiones') began at the Comedy Theatre in 1941 with Rise Above It, and continued in Sky High at the Phoenix Theatre. It was during this latter show that their rivalry escalated in the press into a famous feud. Her first significant appearance in New York was in 1953 in John Murray Anderson's Almanac. For the rest of her career she was based in America and became particularly well known on talk shows.
Hermione Gingold; Hermione Baddeley
by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1949
NPG P896
by Francis Goodman
bromide contact print, 1 October 1945
NPG Ax39606
by Francis Goodman
bromide contact print, 1 October 1945
NPG Ax39607
by Francis Goodman
bromide contact print, 1 October 1945
NPG Ax39608
by Francis Goodman
bromide contact print, 1 October 1945
NPG Ax39609
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x88534
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x39469
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x39470
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 3 November 1946
NPG x131045
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 3 November 1946
NPG x131046
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1956
NPG x14085
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x39454
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x39455
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x39456
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x39457
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x39458
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x39459
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x39460
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