Lillah McCarthy as Jennifer Dubedat in 'The Doctor's Dilemma' Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Lillah McCarthy as Jennifer Dubedat in 'The Doctor's Dilemma' NPG x128079

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Foulsham & Banfield

The Granville-Barker/Vedrenne management first staged George Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma'at the Royal Court Theatre on 20 November 1906. Shaw tailored the part of Jennifer Dubedat especially for McCarthy who played opposite Granville-Barker as the artist Louis Dubedat. McCarthy was one of Shaw's favourite actresses; when she returned to London in 1905 he felt he had found his long searched for Ann Whitfield, the female lead in Man and Superman.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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