Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
(1893-1980), ActressSitter in 90 portraits
Singer and actress. Courtneidge's first starring role was in The Mousmé (1911) as Miyo ko San, singing 'Little Japanese Mama'. Many roles followed, most often with her husband, Jack Hulbert. They came to the Gaiety Theatre in 1926 in Rodgers and Hart's Lido Lady, in which she introduced 'A Tiny Flat Near Soho Square'. After 1930 she divided her time between stage and screen, her films including Soldiers of the King and Under Your Hat. Wartime successes Full Swing, (1942) and Something In the Air (1943) led to Under the Counter which she took to Broadway. In Ivor Novello's final show, Gay's the Word (1951) she found her signature tune, 'Vitality!'. She was created a Dame in 1972.
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 8 March 1911
NPG x19189
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 8 March 1911
NPG x19190
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 8 March 1911
NPG x81063
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge as Miyo Ko San in 'The Mousme'
by Foulsham & Banfield, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 1911
NPG Ax160360
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, November 1911
NPG x158821
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1912
NPG x81078
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1912
NPG x81079
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1912
NPG x81080
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1913
NPG x32823
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1913
NPG x32824
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1913
NPG x32825
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1913
NPG x32826
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1913
NPG x32827
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1913
NPG x32828
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1913
NPG x32829
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1913
NPG x32830
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1913
NPG x32831
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1913
NPG x81087
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1913
NPG x81088
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1913
NPG x81089
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