John Gielgud Archive. Scripts for films. Typewritten, except where stated, with extensive MS annotations in ink, ballpoint pen, and pencil by Gielgud himself, and partly imperfect. Gielgud prepared his scripts by folding over the corners of pages or folding the entire page in half, and appears on several occasions to have discarded the portions of the script in which he was not involved.
John Gielgud Archive. Photograph albums presented to Gielgud on his birthday over a period of 17 years by the celebrated American theatre attorney Arnold Weissberger. Weissberger took the pictures from a privileged position in the stalls at rehearsals and sometimes at previews and first nights, and although they are far from a professional standard, they sometimes constitute the only pictorial record of a Gielgud performance The sequence of albums also includes pictures of the house and g...
John Gielgud Archive. Letters from John Gielgud to his mother and father, Kate and Frank Gielgud; 1910–1956. The overwhelming number of letters are addressed to Kate Gielgud; in his early days on tour in the English provinces, Gielgud would write to her at least once or twice a week.
John Gielgud Archive. Scripts for stage plays. Typewritten, except where stated, with extensive MS annotations in ink, ballpoint pen, and pencil by Gielgud himself. Average size 280 x 220 mm.
John Gielgud Archive. Two looseleaf albums of newspaper cuttings relating to the early years of Gielgud’s career; 20th Century. It is not evident who was responsible for their compilation, but that it was a close friend is likely from the witty and knowing placement of a cutting dating from the late 1930s trumpeting the news of Gielgud’s likely marriage to Peggy Ashcroft.
John Gielgud Archive. Documents relating to the 'New Mars Theatre', the elaborate toy theatre given to John Gielgud at Christmas 1911, and operated by Gielgud at his childhood home in Gledhow Gardens, Kensington, with the help of his older brother Val and his sister Eleanor; 1913–1919.
John Gielgud Archive. Albums of theatre programmes, pictorial cuttings from theatre periodicals, and postcards; 1899–1910. Both albums bear the name of a Hilda L. Milford, but in a very different hand in each case. It is just possible that the albums may have been compiled, or at the least begun, by the 'elderly American lady' referred to by Kate Terry Gielgud in her autobiography (Max Reinhardt, 1953) who went to live with her mother, Kate Terry Lewis, after she was widowed in November 1...