GON3912408: Marie Lloyd (Mathilda Wood), English music hall singer, 12 February 1870 - 7 October 1922 / Bridgeman Images

GON3912411: Alice Lloyd (Alice Wood) / Bridgeman Images

GON3912420: Gracie Fields / Bridgeman Images

GON3912429: Fred Emney, comedian and actor of stage and screen, 12 February 1900 - 25 December 1980 / Bridgeman Images

GON3912432: Herbert Campbell, English music hall comedian and one half of a long-term double act with Dan Leno at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London / Bridgeman Images

GON3912453: Jacques Fenoux in 'Le Roi s'amuse' / Bridgeman Images

GON3912223: John Barrymore and Malcolm Keen as Hamlet and Claudius in William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet, Prince of Denmark' / Bridgeman Images

GON3912232: Malcolm Keen as Claudius in William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet, Prince of Denmark' / Bridgeman Images

GON3912244: John Gielgud / Bridgeman Images

XLG3912259: ELGAR, with Carice, at Croydon Airfield, 1933 autographing records, just before setting off for Paris, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

XLG3912325: Richard Strauss -signed portrait with dedication to Edward Elgar: 'My most highly esteemed friend, Sir E, unknown photographer / Bridgeman Images

GON3912439: Billy Mayerl signed portrait / Bridgeman Images

GON3912442: Albert Chevalier in top hat and monocle as Lord Adolphus Villiers in 'The Marriages of Mayfair' at the Drury Lane Theatre, London / Bridgeman Images

GON3912479: Albert Bassermann - portrait as Albrecht von Wallenstein in Friedrich Schiller 's play 'Wallenstein' / Bridgeman Images

GON3912488: Will Quadflieg (Friedrich Quadflieg) - portrait of the German film actor wearing a hat, 15 September 1914 - 27 November 2003 / Bridgeman Images

GON3912512: Coquelin cadet (Ernest Alexandre Honoré Coquelin), French stage actor of the Comédie Française, 16 May 1848 - 8 February 1909 / Bridgeman Images

GON3912539: Anton Walbrook, né Adolf Wohlbrück, holding a cigarette / Bridgeman Images

GON3912557: John Mills, British actor 22 February 1908 - 23 April 2005 / Bridgeman Images

GON3912563: Ivor Novello and Lily Elsie as Max Clement and Rosine Brown in Novello's 1928 play 'The Truth Game' / Bridgeman Images

GON3912569: Lilian Baylis, Levson, Leon (1883-1968) / Bridgeman Images

GON3912575: Fred Astaire / Bridgeman Images

GON3912611: Fred Terry as Sir Percy Blakeney and Julia Neilson as Lady Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel / Bridgeman Images

GON3912614: Romeo and Juliet, with Matheson Lang as Romeo, Eric Mayne as Mercutio, Lauderdale Maitland as Benvolio and Annie Beavington as Page to Mercutio / Bridgeman Images

GON3912617: Balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, with Matheson Lang as Romeo and Nora Kerin as Juliet / Bridgeman Images

GON3912623: Scene from Peter Pan by JM Barrie with Gerard du Maurier as Mr Darling, Dorothea Baird as Mrs Darling, Arthur Lupino as Nana the dog, George Hersee as John Darling, W Geoghegan as Michael Darling and Hilda Trevelyan as Wendy Darling / Bridgeman Images

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GON3912492: Gertrude Lawrence, in role, reclining on a deck chair in an ocean liner set / Bridgeman Images

GON3912528: Gabrielle Robinne - portrait in feather headdress / Bridgeman Images

GON3912549: Ada Rehan in role / Bridgeman Images

GON3912555: Lawrence Olivier as Oedipus in the 1946 Old Vic production of Sophocles' 'Oedipus' / Bridgeman Images

GON3912591: Matheson Lang as Hamlet and Hutin Britton as Ophelia in William Shakespeare 's Hamlet / Bridgeman Images

GON3912484: Rosa Poppe, German stage actress / Bridgeman Images

GON3912609: Antony & Cleopatra with Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Mark Antony, Lyn Harding as Domitius Enorbarbus, Norman Forbes as Lepidus, Basil Gill as Octavius, Julian L'Estrange as Sextus Pompeius and Herbert Grimwood as Menas / Bridgeman Images

GON3912505: Tilla Durieux dressed in Egyptian headdress to play Cleopatra / Bridgeman Images

GON3912624: Scene from Peter Pan by JM Barrie with Wendy and the Lost Boys / Bridgeman Images