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.
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x39461
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x39462
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x39463
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x39464
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x39465
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x39466
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x39467
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x39468
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x39471
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x39472
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1 October 1945
NPG x39473
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 3 November 1946
NPG x131042
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 3 November 1946
NPG x131043
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 3 November 1946
NPG x131044
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 3 November 1946
NPG x131047
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 3 November 1946
NPG x131048
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 3 November 1946
NPG x131049
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 3 November 1946
NPG x131050
Hermione Gingold in 'Slings and Arrows'
by Angus McBean
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 24 September 1948
NPG x193344
by Angus McBean
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 19 April 1950
NPG x193394
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