Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge NPG D49322

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown photographer, issued by Carreras Tobacco Company

Singer and actress. Courtneidge's first starring role was in The Mousmé (1911) as Miyo ko San, singing 'Little Japanese Mama'. Many roles followed, most often with her husband, Jack Hulbert. They came to the Gaiety Theatre in 1926 in Rodgers and Hart's Lido Lady, in which she introduced 'A Tiny Flat Near Soho Square'. After 1930 she divided her time between stage and screen, her films including Soldiers of the King and Under Your Hat. Wartime successes Full Swing, (1942) and Something In the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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