Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Phyllis Monkman in 'Keep Smiling' NPG x101439

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

Actress, dancer and singer. She began as a teenager, achieving success in Butterflies (1908). After many appearances in revues, notably Bubbly (1917), and Tails Up! (1918) in which she sang Ivor Novello's 'Any Little Thing' with Jack Buchanan, Monkman was one of the founders in 1921 of the 'Co-Optimists' 'pierrotic' concert party, in which she appeared on and off for several years with her husband, Laddie Cliff. Noël Coward cast her in his musical play Operette (1938), and Ivor Novello wrote a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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