John Gielgud Archive. Album of ephemera; 1936. Material relating to The seagull, and the film of The secret agent. '9A' gold-stamped on spine, which is completely detached.
John Gielgud Archive. 1962. Cuttings related to The school for scandal (Theatre Royal, Haymarket, as director and later also on tour to the USA as Joseph Surface); Ages of Man recital (on tour); and a television version of The cherry orchard.
John Gielgud Archive. 1965–1966. Ivanov; Alice in Wonderland (as the Mock Turtle); The mayfly and the frog (as Gabriel Kantara); and The love song of Barney Kempinski, the documentary To die in Madrid; again for television; and the films Chimes at midnight (as Henry IV) and The loved one.
John Gielgud Archive. 1968–1969. Oedipus; the films The charge of the Light Brigade; The shoes of the fisherman (as the Pope), Oh! What a lovely war! (as Count Berchtold); and Assignment to kill (as Kurt Valayan); Mozart’s Don Giovanni (at the Coliseum, as director); Shaw’s Saint Joan (televis...
John Gielgud Archive. Leaves from another notebook recording the activities of the Mars Theatre, also written by John Gielgud; 1910–1920. Although these leaves are quite evidently torn from a notebook very similar to 81329 A, they cannot be identified with the leaves torn out of that book, nor...
A, B. John Gielgud Archive. 'The cherry orchard', by Anton Chekhov; 1954 production with Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies as Andreyevna and Trevor Howard as Lopakhin, directed by Gielgud at the Lyric, Hammersmith.
John Gielgud Archive. 'Forty years on', by Alan Bennett. Early draft copy, with pages from at least two different typed versions, and numerous inserts, attachments, and annotations.
John Gielgud Archive. 'Half life', by Julian Mitchell. Used for the production at the National Theatre from October 1978 and the West End production at the Duke of York’s.