Gertie

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photo by Horst P. Horst

photo by Horst P. Horst

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

painting by William Acton

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

with Arthur Kennedy in The Glass Menagerie, 1950

with Arthur Kennedy in The Glass Menagerie, 1950

Costume sketch for Mimi by Doris Zinkeisen, 1935

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!

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

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)

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

painting by Fanny Holtzmann

It’s… an ice cream lid! With Gertie’s face on it! Because why not?