Play by George Bernard Shaw. Joan's canonisation in 1920 may have suggested the topic to Shaw. The premiere was in New York in December. The London premiere was in March 1924 with Sybil Thorndike in the title role, the actor for whom Shaw had written the part.
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Saint Joan
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Saville Theatre - Saint Joan
George Bernard Shaw wrote his play Saint Joan with Thorndike in mind, and thi...
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Royal Coburg Theatre / Royal Victoria Theatre / Old Vic
This theatre designed by the German architect Rudolphe Cabanel, began life in 1818 as the Royal Coburg Theatre under the patronage of Princess Charlotte of Wales and her husband Prince Leopold of C...
7 memorials
People's Palace
Proposed by Walter Besant, the first People's Palace was built by the Beaumont Trustees, ‘Unitarian philanthropists’, to replace Beaumont's Philosophical Institution which had been in Beaumont Squa...
3 memorials
Fanny Kelly
Actress and singer. Born Brighton. Rejected an offer of marriage from Charles Lamb, but remained friends with him and his family. Ran a small theatre, New Royalty, at 73-4 Dean Street, 1840 - 1850,...
1 memorial
Croydon Grand Theatre and Opera House
The theatre was opened by Herbert Beerbohm Tree and it originally produced plays and melodrama. By the 1920s it had become a venue for touring companies. Sarah Bernhardt and Sir Henry Irving were g...
1 memorial
Grand Order of Water Rats
Show business charity with headquarters at The Water Rats Public House in the Gray's Inn Road.
8 memorials
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Dodie Smith
Author and playwright, Born Lancashire. Wrote 'The Hundred and One Dalmations' and 'I Capture the Castle'. Born Lancashire but in 1910 her mother remarried and they moved to London. Did some acti...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Charlie Chaplin
Born Charles Spencer Chaplin in East Street, Walworth (possibly, see Londonist). Comic actor, composer, director and producer. Born into a music hall family. He joined a troupe of child dancers, '...
13 memorials
Patrick Blackett
Physicist. Born Kensington, Served in the navy in WW1. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948. Government and military advisor in WW2. Created a life peer in 1969 as Baron Blackett of Chelsea....
1 memorial
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