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85mm X 70 mm black/white. Publicity Photo relating to appearance at the famous City Varieties Theatre Leeds, 1946. Signed in pencil

85mm X 85mm colour private photo.  Signed "Best wishes, Athene Seyler"

Athene Seyler, CBE (31 May 1889 – 12 September 1990) was an English actress.

Although better known as a stage actress, she first appeared on the stage in 1909 and made her film debut in 1921, and became known for playing slightly dotty old ladies.

Her film and television career lasted into the 1960s, and included roles in The Citadel, Night of the Demon and The Avengers. She was also a regular cast member in screen adaptations of Charles Dickens novels.

Although she pretty much retired from acting after 1970, she continued making public appearances until well into the 1980s, memorably as a guest of Terry Wogan on his eponymous BBC chat show.

Athene Seyler was President of RADA from 1950, and a member of the Theatrical Ladies Guild [1].

She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1959.

The Rocks of Valpre (1935)
Drake of England (1935)
Moscow Nights (1935)
Scrooge (1935)
Sensation (1936)
The Mill on the Floss (1937)
Jane Steps Out (1938)
Dear Octopus (1943)
The First Gentleman (1948)
The Franchise Affair (1951)
Treasure Hunt (1952)
The Beggar's Opera (1953)
The Weak and the Wicked (1954)
As Long as They're Happy (1955)
Yield to the Night (1956)
Doctor at Large (1957)
Campbell's Kingdom (1957)
Night of the Demon (1957)
A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
Make Mine Mink (1960)
The Girl on the Boat (1961)
Francis of Assisi (1961)
I Thank a Fool (1962)
Nurse on Wheels (1963)

45mm X 75 mm black/white. Publicity photo.  

50mm X 125 mm black/white. Publicity photo. Signed

"Clay Keyes", host of a radio variety show "The Old Town Hall", during World War Two  was also Haver the American-accented, tall, bespectacled and annoyed half of Haver and Lee., one of the most obscure double-acts in the whole of British music-hall history.

80mm X 100mm black/white postcard  - cropped. Publicity photo.  Signed in Blue Ink, Florence Desmond

Florence Desmond - 1905-1993, British comic actress with a major career on stage in plays and in revue, plus a briefer film career (My Lucky Star, No Limits, Three Come Home, Some Girls Do)

70mm X 90 mm black/white. Publicity Photo

Harry Korris (b 8 Oct 1891 d 4 Jun 1971)

“ Eeeeh – If ever a man suffered!” was long-suffering Harry Korris’s catch-phrase. The portly star of three Mancunian movies and countless sea-side revues had on of the first smash hit radio comedy shows entitled Happidrome where he shared the bill with Robbie Vincent and Cecil Fredericks as ‘Ramsbottom, Enoch and me”. The programme was set in a down at heel variety theatre and was hugely popular throughout the War.