Joyce Olivia Redman (1915 – 2012). Anglo-Irish actress. She received two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in the 1963 film Tom Jones and the 1965 film Othello.
Albert Finney (1936 – 2019). English actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining prominence on screen in the early 1960s, debuting with The Entertainer (1960), directed by Tony Richardson, who had previously directed him in the theatre. He maintained a successful career in theatre, film and television.
Phyllis Hannah Murray-Hill (née Bickle; 1915 – 2002), known professionally as Phyllis Calvert. English film, stage and television actress. She was one of the leading stars of the Gainsborough melodramas of the 1940s such as The Man in Grey (1943) and was one of the most popular movie stars in Britain in the 1940s. She continued her acting career for another 50 years.
Isabel Ann Barr (1929 – 2015). British journalist and writer involved in coining the terms Sloane Rangers and Foodies, in the early 1980s.
Janet Munro (born Janet Neilson Horsburgh; 1934 – 1972). British actress. She won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the film Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) and received a BAFTA Film Award nomination for her performance in the film Life for Ruth (1962).
Munro starred in three Disney films: Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959), Third Man on the Mountain (1959) and Swiss Family Robinson (1960). Other film credits were roles in The Trollenberg Terror (1958) and The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961).
She was the daughter of Scottish comedian Alex Munro (real name Alexander Neilson Horsburgh) and his wife, Phyllis Robertshaw. She used her father's stage name professionally.
She was the first adult actress to be given a five-year contract by Walt Disney and the first English TV star to be importet by Hollywood.
- "Disney found the emerald-eyed, auburn-haired Gaelic beauty on his casting tour of Ireland and England last winter." https://www.disneyhistoryinstitute.com/.../march-2020...
- "Auburn hair" https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0613130/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
Nancy Walker (born Anna Myrtle Swoyer, 1922 – 1992). American actress and comedian of stage, screen, and television. She was also a film and television director. During her five-decade-long career, she may be best remembered for her long-running roles as Mildred on McMillan & Wife and Ida Morgenstern, who first appeared on several episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and later became a prominent recurring character on the spinoff series Rhoda.
Cara Williams (born Bernice Kamiat; 1925 – 2021). American film and television actress. She was best known for her role as Billy's Mother in The Defiant Ones (1958), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and for her role as Gladys Porter on the 1960–62 CBS television series Pete and Gladys, for which she was nominated for the Emmy Award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy.
Isabella of Aragon (1470 – 1524), also known as Isabella of Naples. Duchess of Milan (by marriage) and suo jure Duchess of Bari.
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| Lunette of Isabella of Aragon in the house of the Atellani, Milan. One of the few certain portraits. | |
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| Lady with a Flea Fur, by Bernardino Luini |
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| Portrait of a Lady, by Ambrogio de Predis |
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| Virgin and Child, by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio |
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| Madonna Litta, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci |
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| Possible portraits of Isabella and her husband Gian Galeazzo |
Dame Nellie Melba (born Helen Porter Mitchell; 1861 – 1931). Australian operatic soprano. She became one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian era and the early 20th century, and was the first Australian to achieve international recognition as a classical musician. She took the pseudonym "Melba" from Melbourne, her home town.
Sir Christopher John Chataway (1931 – 2014). British middle- and long-distance runner, television news broadcaster, and Conservative politician.
Frances Clara Cleveland Preston (born Frank Clara Folsom; 1864 – 1947). First Lady of the United States from 1886 to 1889, and again from 1893 to 1897 as the wife of President Grover Cleveland. Becoming First Lady at age 21, she remains the youngest wife of a sitting president.
Mary Victoria Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston (née Leiter; 1870 – 1906). British peeress of American background who was Vicereine of India, as the wife of Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India. As Vicereine of India, she held the highest official title in the Indian Empire that a woman could hold.
Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke, 2nd Earl of Montgomery (1621 – 1669). English nobleman and politician. He was the son of Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, and his first wife Susan de Vere.
Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (1924 – 1992). British nobleman, military officer, and courtier. He was the father of Diana, Princess of Wales, and the maternal grandfather of William, Prince of Wales, and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.
Charles of Orléans (1459 – 1496). Count of Angoulême from 1467 until his death. He succeeded his father, John, and was initially under the regency of his mother, Marguerite de Rohan, assisted by Jean I de La Rochefoucauld, one of his vassals.
Charles commissioned the luxuriously illustrated Heures de Charles d'Angoulême.
Diane de Poitiers (1500 – 1566). French noblewoman and prominent courtier. She wielded much power and influence as King Henry II's royal mistress and adviser until his death. Her position increased her wealth and family's status. She was a major patron of French Renaissance architecture.
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| Diane de Poitiers' lock of hair |
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| Painting by the school of Fontainebleau, 1590 |
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| Painting by the schoold of Fontainebleau |
John Cairncross (1913 – 1995). British civil servant who became an intelligence officer and spy during the Second World War. As a Soviet double agent, he passed to the Soviet Union the raw Tunny decryptions that influenced the Battle of Kursk. He was alleged to be the fifth member of the Cambridge Five. He was also notable as a translator, literary scholar and writer of non-fiction.
Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova (1932 - 2021). Russian memoir writer.
Christine Ell. Owner of the club “Christine’s” in the Greenwich Village, which she started in around 1918/1919. She was also a member of the Prvincetown Players.
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| A photograph of a painting by Charles Ellis showing, from bottom left to right: James Light, Charles (“Hutch”) Collins, Christine Ell, “Jig” Cook, and O’Neill |
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| Christine Ell as the maid Louise in Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux |
Alan Harrison Berg (1934 – 1984). American talk radio show host in Denver, Colorado. Born to a Jewish family, he had outspoken atheistic and liberal views and a confrontational interview style.
Angélique Paulet (1592–1651). French précieuse, singer and lute-playing musician, one of the habitués of the famous literary salon of Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet.
The Hon. Thomas Stafford (c. 1533 – 1557). English aristocrat involved in two rebellions against Queen Mary I.
Isabella Jagiellon (1519 – 1559). Queen consort of Hungary. She was the oldest child of Polish King Sigismund I the Old, the Grand Duke of Lithuania and his Italian wife Bona Sforza.
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| by Jacopino del Conte |
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| Isabella Jagiellon Holding a Fan, after lost original by Titian or Jacopino del Conte |
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| Isabella Jagiellon Holding a Zibellino, by Jacopino del Conte |
