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    Dame Irene Boucicault DBE (2 December 1872 – 30 November 1949), née Barnes, known professionally as Irene Vanbrugh (/aɪˈrini ˈvænbrə/pronunciation) was...
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    first production, which featured George Alexander, Allan Aynesworth and Irene Vanbrugh among others, many actors have been associated with the play, including...
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    historian Irene van Zyl (born 1984), Namibian cricketer Irene Vanbrugh (1872–1949), English actress Irene Vecchi (born 1989), Italian fencer Irene Vélez Torres...
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    career was overshadowed by that of her more famous sister, Dame Irene Vanbrugh. Vanbrugh studied acting and made her professional debut in an 1886 burlesque...
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    Henry Ainley (1931–1933) Lady Tree (1934–1935) Cyril Maude (1945) Dame Irene Vanbrugh (1946–1947) Dame Sybil Thorndike (1948–1949) Athene Seyler (1950–1951)...
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  • Vanbrugh may refer to: Irene Vanbrugh, English actress John Vanbrugh, English playwright and architect Philip VanBrugh, naval commander Violet Vanbrugh...
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    successful 828 performances. It starred H. B. Irving as Crichton and Irene Vanbrugh as Lady Mary Lasenby. In 1903, the play was produced on Broadway by...
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    in the cast included Charles Cherry, Frank Gillmore, May Fortescue, Irene Vanbrugh and Mabel Terry-Lewis. The play was revived in the West End in five...
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    Chiltern, Martita Hunt as Mrs Cheveley, Roland Culver as Lord Goring and Irene Vanbrugh as Lady Markby, set design by Rex Whistler. A London revival in 1965–66...
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    chaplain and VC Fred Karno (1866–1941), comedy pioneer and impresario Irene Vanbrugh (1872–1949), actress Herbert Augustine Carter (1874–1916), army officer...
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    London in a farce called What the Butler Saw in 1905 and, in 1911, when Irene Vanbrugh made her debut in variety, she chose Terry and Gwenn to join her in...
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  • Mr. Buckland Kathryn Beaumont as Jill Buckland Judy Kelly as Violet Irene Vanbrugh as Mrs. Bellamy Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Purkiss Moore Marriott as...
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  • film directed by Fred Paul and starring Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Irene Vanbrugh and Henry S. Irving. The film depicts episodes from the life of the...
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    wrote The Truth About Blayds in 1921 with Boucicault and his wife, Irene Vanbrugh, in mind. They accepted it and the play was put into rehearsal, opening...
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  • Warner Bros. In Venice, Sir Ivor (Leon Quartermaine) and Lady McLean (Irene Vanbrugh) are entertaining a guest when a woman is discovered dressed as a schoolgirl...
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  • Catherine Flora Robson as Empress Elisabeth Gerald du Maurier as Lecocq Irene Vanbrugh as Princess Anhalt-Zerbst Joan Gardner as Katushienka Dorothy Hale as...
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    evening of 11 March, starring Sydney Valentine as Phillip Hammond, Irene Vanbrugh as Cynthia Herrick, Sir George Alexander as John Herrick, with Rosalie...
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    plays. In 1921–22 he was in A. A. Milne's The Truth About Blayds with Irene Vanbrugh at the Globe Theatre. In 1929 and 1930 he gave two repertory seasons...
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    comedy, which opened in February 1916 at the New Theatre, London, with Irene Vanbrugh in the title role. In November 1916 Maugham was asked by the intelligence...
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  • Craigavon; Myra Hess; The Marchioness of Reading; Reniera Stanley; Irene Vanbrugh 1942: Katharine Jones 1943: Emily Blair; Lilian Braithwaite; Anne Loughlin;...
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  • years at RADA in London under Kenneth Barnes and his sisters Violet and Irene Vanbrugh. From there he went into repertory at Tonbridge and Northampton. In...
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    Griffith Jones as the young peer who falls in love with the heroine, and Irene Vanbrugh as his mother. Cast in an Edwardian musical comedy, The Model Maid,...
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    husband's dead first wife and wins his undivided love. It was a triumph for Irene Vanbrugh and Alexander in the lead roles, and for Pinero; it ran for 430 performances...
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    Kemble with Irene Vanbrugh in The Admirable Crichton, 1902...
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    Duchess of Stroud in Our Own Lives at the Ambassadors Theatre, with Irene Vanbrugh. A volume of correspondence between Maud and her literary, business...
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  • Gay Lord Quex directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Ben Webster and Irene Vanbrugh – (GB) September 13 – The Gulf Between, All color movie. September 22...
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  • first professional engagement in a touring company run by Violet and Irene Vanbrugh. According to Morton's obituary in The Times, his cinema career began...
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    co-starred in a farce called What the Butler Saw in 1905. When, in 1911, Irene Vanbrugh made her debut in variety, she chose Minnie Terry and Gwenn to join...
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  • Ernest Thesiger (1879–1961) Henry Travers (1874–1965) Irene Vanbrugh (1872–1949) Violet Vanbrugh (1876–1942) H.B. Warner (1876–1958) Lionel Atwill (1885–1946)...
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    Adult actors who appeared along with the mainly juvenile casts included Irene Vanbrugh as the Knave of Hearts (1888); Ellaline Terriss as Alice and Seymour...
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