Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charlie Chester NPG x125736

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Count Zichy, for Baron Studios

'Cheerful Charlie' Chester was born Cecil Victor Manser, the son an Eastbourne cinema sign-painter and and a mother who sang. Starting at age 7 he won over 82 talent competitions before turning professional whilst still a teenager. His sixty year career was spent primarily as a radio star ranging from his war time success in Stand Easy followed by shows such as Keep Smiling, Come to Charlie (a sitcom) and A Proper Charlie making him a major 1950s top radio and variety name. In 1969... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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