Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Gina Palerme NPG x101429

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

Actress and dancer Gina Palerme first came to prominence as Toinette in Lionel Monckton's The Quaker Girl (1910). Other roles followed in The Dancing Mistress (1912), Betty (1914) and Vanity Fair (1916). Cecil Beaton was fascinated by her and wrote, 'Gina Palerme brought the glamour of the French cocotte to London. Her off-stage appearances were as sensational as her stage escapades...sometimes she wore a velvet tam-o'-shanter and men's riding breeches while relaxing in the richly ornate gilt of her Maida Vale drawing-room.' In... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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