Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Dame Edith Evans as the nurse in 'Romeo and Juliet' NPG x11779

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Howard Coster

Evans's career as an actor spanned almost seventy years and over 150 characters. She achieved widespread fame for her stage performances in the 1920s, and was particularly noted for her interpretation of the plays of Shakespeare. She also originated several roles for the playwright George Bernard Shaw. Her most famous film role is that of Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), which she had played numerous times on stage. During the 1960s, she was nominated for three... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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