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Denham Studios restaurant by Tony Wysard, 1937

Intensively populated illustration by Tony Wysard, showing imagined diners at the restaurant at Denham Studios. Illustration includes a key to all caricatures portrayed but include David Niven and Gracie Fields (table 7), Rex Harrison, Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (table 5), and Charles Laughton (table 12). The artist shows himself peeping into the picture top left. Denham Studios covered over 28 acres in a 165 acre estate. There were seven sound stages, two of which were air-conditioned and the largest in Europe. Date: 1937

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

King Henry VI of England married to Margaret of Anjou

King Henry VI of England married to Margaret of Anjou at Titchfield Abbey, 23 April 1445. The mad king was 24 and the queen 15. The ceremony is officiated by a bishop, and attended by maids in hennin, courtiers, falconer, jester, page with dagger. Marriage of Henry VI with Margaret of Anjou. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by John Leech from Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett's Comic History of England, Bradbury, Agnew & Co., London, 1880

© Florilegius

Whos Hooper? by Fred Thompson

Promotional postcard for Whos Hooper? By Fred Thompson, founded on A. W. Pineros play In Chancery (1884); music Ivor Novello and Howard Talbot. First produced at the Adelphi Theatre, 13th September 1919. W. H. Berry is shown as Vincent Hitchens who has lost his memory. Because of the initials on his bag, he is taken for Vincent Hooper, who is on the run. For the Adelphi Theatre. Date: 1919

© The Michael Diamond Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library