Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson Archive

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Title Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson Archive
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Abstract/Description Scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings and photographs about actress Sybil Thorndike; her actor and producer husband Sir Lewis Casson and their daughters, Mary and Ann Casson who both acted from childhood. The majority are reviews of plays, including G.B. Shaw's St Joan and Major Barbara, but there are also articles by and about the Cassons. Copies of other plays and a book draft of Theatre Testament by Kay Poulton, for which Lewis Casson was writing the foreward. Various honours including honorary degrees and a medal from the ' Quinzaine Anglo-Americaine', in 1945. Items range in date from 1919-1971, though most are from between 1924 and 1930.
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Date Created 1865
Date Terminated 1971
Catalogue ID THM/33
Holding Institution Victoria & Albert Department of Theatre and Performance
Language English
Extent 8 boxes
Citation Lewis Casson, Sybil Thorndike, Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson Archive, Victoria & Albert Department of Theatre and Performance, 1865
Data Set AusStage
Resource Identifier 68252