Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Claire Bloom NPG P1145

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bern Schwartz

Born in London, Bloom established a reputation as a Shakespearean actress first at Straford-upon-Avon in 1948 and then at the Old Vic in 1952. Played Cordelia opposite John Gielgud in King Lear in 1955. Her film career included appearing with Chaplin in Limelight (1952), Laurence Olivier in Richard III (1955) and Richard Burton in Look Back in Anger (1958). Bloom's memoirs, Leaving a Doll's House were published in 1996.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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