Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Frankie Howerd NPG D17941(14)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Cecil Beaton

Camp and often lugubrious, Howerd began his career entertaining troops in the Second World War. The radio show Variety Bandbox from 1947 made him a household name. In the early 1960s, performing at Peter Cook's The Establishment Club helped to revive his career from a temporary decline. During the 1950s and 1960s Howerd appeared in several films, including The Runaway Bus, The Lady Killers, Carry on Doctor and The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery. Television successes included The Frankie Howerd Show (1953-56), That was... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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