Vintage photographs by Angus McBean, 1930s-1960s

Zena Dare

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1938
NPG P888

Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1938
NPG P893

Vivien Leigh; Angus McBean

by Angus McBean, by John Vickers
bromide print, 1938
NPG P901

Jill Furse

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1939
NPG P895

Michael Charles Henry MacOwan

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1939
NPG P905

Sir Frederick Ashton; Ninette de Valois; Léonide Massine

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1946
NPG P911

Joyce Grenfell

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1947
NPG P897

Elizabeth Bowen

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1948
NPG P887

Anatole de Grunwald

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1948
NPG P889

Sir Arthur Bliss

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1949
NPG P886

Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1949
NPG P892

Hermione Gingold; Hermione Baddeley

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1949
NPG P896

Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'

by Angus McBean
bromide print, October 1949
NPG P902

(Anton) Charles ('Carl') Ebert; (William) Miles Malleson

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1950
NPG P890

Margot Fonteyn

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1951
NPG P894

Nancy Spain

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1951
NPG P909

Audrey Sophia Harris (Mrs George Devine); Percy Harris

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1954
NPG P898

Beatrice Gladys Lillie (Lady Peel)

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1954
NPG P903

T.S. Eliot; (Esme) Valerie Eliot (née Fletcher)

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1957
NPG P891

Shirley Bassey

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1959
NPG P885

Spike Milligan

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1960
NPG P907

Joan Plowright

by Angus McBean
bromide print, early 1960s
NPG P908

David Lean

by Angus McBean
bromide print, circa 1961
NPG P900

The Shadows

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1961
NPG P912

Dame Elizabeth Taylor

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1966
NPG P910

Danny La Rue

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1968
NPG P899

Stefan Lorant

by Angus McBean
bromide print
NPG P904

Walter James Macqueen-Pope

by Angus McBean
bromide print
NPG P906