Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller NPG x196103

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Baron (Sterling Henry Nahum)

Sacked as assistant stage manager from the Manchester Repertory Theatre, Hiller was recalled when a Lancashire accent was required for the heroine in Ronald Gow and Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole (1934). In 1935, George Bernard Shaw saw her in London and invited her to play the title role in St Joan at the Malvern Festival and Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, in 1936. She later appeared in films of Pygmalion (1938), for which she received an Oscar nomination, and Major Barbara (1940). Hiller... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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