Group    From 1897 

Vitagraph

Categories: Cinema

Countries: USA

International film company. Formed in Brocklyn by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith. Bought by Warner Bros in 1925.

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Vitagraph

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Simon Callow did the unveiling honours. There seems to be a battle going on ...

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Sir Noel Coward

Sir Noel Coward

Actor, playwright, composer, film director, author, singer. Born Helmsdale, 5 Waldegrave Road, Teddington. Died at home in Jamaica, where he was buried. Obsessed with the theatre, he was a child a...

Person, Cinema, Gender Issues, Music / songs, Seriously Famous, Theatre, Jamaica

4 memorials
Stephen John Fry

Stephen John Fry

Actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer with professional name Stephen Fry. Born on 24 August 1957, the second of the three children of Alan John Fry (1930-2019) and Marianne Ev...

Person, Cinema, Humour, Literature, Seriously Famous, TV & Radio

3 memorials
Shepperton and Pinewood Studios

Shepperton and Pinewood Studios

The picture source website provides a good history.

Group, Cinema

1 memorial
Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson

Singer, actor (also athlete and civil rights activist). Born Princeton, New Jersey to a former slave, who educated himself to become a theologian and who had great expectations of his son, expectat...

Person, Cinema, Music / songs, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Theatre, USA

1 memorial
Joyce Grenfell

Joyce Grenfell

Born Joyce Phipps in Montpelier Square, London. Her mother was sister to Nancy Astor, MP, so she was "well brought up". Aged 19 she married Reggie, her husband until her death. The picture is a se...

Person, Cinema, Humour, Theatre

2 memorials

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J. Grossman

J. Grossman

District Staff Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1906-1949. Commander in the Order of St John.

Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Croydon Road Recreation Ground

Croydon Road Recreation Ground

The land was purchased by the Beckenham Local Board to provide a public open space which had been lacking since the loss of the Fair Field for housing in the 1870s. The site was part of open farmla...

Place, Gardens / Agriculture, Transport

1 memorial
Doctor Alfred Salter - SE10

Doctor Alfred Salter - SE10

SE10, Greenwich South Street, 23

Birthplace in 1873 of Dr. Alfred Salter, Quaker and first Labour M.P. for Bermondsey. A tireless crusader against sickness and poverty.

1 subject commemorated
Silver Jubilee urn

Silver Jubilee urn

WC1, Queen Square

Hughes became Poet Laureate a few years later and Larkin was of similar standing. In our view their lines for the jubilee do not greatly ...

2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Edith Cavell at Royal London Hospital

Edith Cavell at Royal London Hospital

E1, Whitechapel Road, Royal London Hospital

English Heritage Edith Cavell, 1865 - 1915, pioneer of modern nursing in Belgium and heroine of the Great War, trained and worked here, 1...

War dead | WW1
1 subject commemorated, 1 creator