Gertie

(via ladylizaelliott)

painting by William Acton

(From the nose down it’s Gertie. Everything else… I don’t know!)

ladylizaelliott:

survivethatcarpet:

The Egregiously Overlooked Underappreciated Individuals: 

Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952)

‘Sometimes, in ‘Private Lives’, I would look at her across the stage and she would simply take my breath away.’

-Noel Coward

 

^^^this 

with Arthur Kennedy in The Glass Menagerie, 1950

Costume sketch for Mimi by Doris Zinkeisen, 1935

Autograph statement signed, “G. Bernard Shaw,” authorizing Gertrude Lawrence to broadcast any part of his writings in exchange for a pair of mittens.

Aww!

photo by Bassano, 1917

Miss Gertrude Lawrence, stage and screen star, climbing the ladder up a ship’s side during her recent tour of advanced bases in the Pacific. She has been entertaining U.S. Coast Guard crews and Marine Corps troops aboard many ships. (Evening Post, 05 July 1945)

painting by Fanny Holtzmann