Pictures

On the eve of battle, King Henry V (Laurence Olivier) in armour parleys with Mountjoy, the French Herald

The sight of Yorick’s skull in a churchyard evokes a monologue from Prince Hamlet (Laurence Olivier) on mortality

Victoria Page (Moira Lister) dances in the Powell and Pressburger film, The Red Shoes from 1948

Signed photo of British actress, Dulcie Gray. Picture reads ’Sincerely, Dulcie Gray’

British actress Hazel Court and Irish leading man Dermot Walsh at a party in the late 1940s (possibly early 50s). Picture reads ’To Peter, Hazel Court. To Peter, Sincerely Dermot Walsh’.

Lovely Hazel Court, British actress, who starred starred recently as Joan Huggett in Holiday Camp (1947) and as Helena Forsythe in My Sister and I (1948). Picture reads ’Good Luck, Hazel Court’.

Maxwell Frere (Michael Redgrave) with the ventriloquist dummy in Dead of Night (1945)

Ted Edwards (Nigel Stock) in a scene from It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

Morry Hyams (Sydney Tafler) in his store in a scene from It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

Lou (John Slater) in overcoat, tie and hat in a scene from It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

Publicity shot for British actress, Enid Stamp-Taylor

Michael Rennie, British actor, in a moustachioed publicity shot for the Gainsborough Pictures film, The Wicked Lady (1945)

British actor, Roland Culver

British actor Richard Attenborough in a publicity shot

British comedian Stanley Holloway wears a trilby, jacket and tie as he smokes his pipe

Glynis Johns, in the dual role of Caroline/Miranda Trewella, strikes a sexy pose in a publicity shot from Mad About Men (1954)

Publicity photo featuring British actress Irene Handl

Jack Read (Richard Attenborough) and Lynne Hartley (Sheila Sim) laugh uproariously in The Guinea Pig (1948)

Sheila Sim, whose steady rise to success in such films as A Canterbury Tale, The Guinea Pig and Dear Mr Prohack has established her as an accomplished actress who epitomises youthful English charm, has an important romantic role in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman. She plays Janet, the archaeologist narrator’s niece, who suffers unhappiness through her love for Pandora’s fiancé, a famous racing motorist, portrayed by Nigel Patrick

Elsie (Marilyn Monroe) stands at the foot of the stairs and looks back over her shoulder as Maisie Springfield (Jean Kent) opens a nearby door and looks on. A scene from The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).

Anton Diffring (as Dmitri Krassin) and Donald Houston (as Albert Pascoe) in a photograph from Doublecross (1956)

British actor Donald Houston wears a jacket and tie

British actress Kathleen Harrison wears a striped blouse

British actor Cecil Parker wears a suit, tie and pocket square

British actor James Mason wears a black dinner jacket and bow tie

British actor Felix Aylmer wears a white dinner jacket and bow tie

British actor Derek Farr wears a jacket and tie. Picture is autographed ’To David Good luck, Derek Farr’

British actor John Mills wears a jacket and tie

British actor Michael Wilding wears a jacket and tie

British actor Jack Hawkins wears a jacket and tie

Grimshaw (Mervyn Johns) wears a hat and bow tie in My Learned Friend (1943)

Autographed photo from 1943 featuring Meriel Forbes

Sarah Willoughby (Peggy Cummins) in Welcome, Mr Washington (1944)

Deborah Kerr (as Sally Hardcastle) in a photograph from Love on the Dole (1941) (1)

Anne Crawford (as Jennifer) and Patricia Roc (as Celia) in a photograph from Millions Like Us (1943) (1)

Muller (Will Hay), in Nazi uniform, in The Goose Steps Out (1942)

Richard Lupino (as William Brown) in a photograph from Just William (1940) (1)

Henry Wilcoxon (as Capt Nicolai Ilyinski) and Anna Sten (as Maria Krasnova aka Maria Novikova) in a photograph from A Woman Alone (1936)

Margaret Leighton, British actress, pictured in 1948

Auburn-haired Phyllis Calvert, considered England’s most beautiful dramatic actress, makes her American film début in Rachel Field’s ’Time Out of Mind’, as filmed by Universal-International. The ’lend-lease’ beauty was recently starred with James Mason in J. Arthur Rank’s ’They Were Sisters’. ’Time Out of Mind’, produced and directed by Robert Siodmak, co-stars Miss Calvert with Robert Hutton and Ella Raines.

Patricia Roc stands on the steps of a brick porch. The actress is dressed in a light-coloured trouser suit and sandals.

Jean Simmons as Sergeant Sarah Brown wears white gloves in a publicity shot for the film Guys and Dolls, from 1955.

Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) looks askance at Bob Cratchit (Mervyn Johns) in a scene from Scrooge (1951)

Jassy Woodroffe (Margaret Lockwood) and Nick Helmar (Basil Sydney) play chess in front of the fire at Mordelaine, in the film Jassy (1947)

Col Tusker Smalley (Trevor Howard) and Lucy Smalley (Celia Johnson) sit in front of mountains and chat in Staying On (1980)

Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray, British actor and actress – and in private a loving couple – pose together for a photograph

Anna Neagle (as Judy Howard) and Michael Wilding (as Lord Richard) in a photograph from Spring in Park Lane (1948) (1)

Jim Wormold (Alec Guinness) opens a cereal packet as Beatrice Severn (Maureen O’Hara) watches on, in a scene from Our Man in Havana

Hugh Williams (as Jim Wyndham) and Linden Travers (as Helen Norwood Bernardy) in a photograph from Brief Ecstasy (1937)

Madeleine Carroll (as Queen Caroline Mathilde of Denmark) in a photograph from The Dictator (1935)