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John Gielgud – Vintage Poster Wall Art

John Gielgud, [between 1930 and 1950] — vintage poster
John Gielgud, [between 1930 and 1950]. Vintage poster from the Theater Posters collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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John Gielgud

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John Gielgud, the English actor and director, is shown here in a halftone print that the Library of Congress dates loosely to somewhere between 1930 and 1950, the years when he rose from a promising stage performer to one of the most admired classical actors of his generation. Gielgud spent much of that period on the London and New York stage, known for his precise, musical delivery of Shakespeare and for roles in modern drama. Halftone reproductions like this one were the standard way newspapers, magazines and theater programs circulated actors' likenesses in those decades, so the print also reflects how stage celebrity was packaged for the public.

Created / published[between 1930 and 1950]
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
GenrePortraits 1930-1950.Halftone photomechanical prints 1930-1950.
SubjectsGielgud, John,--1904-2000.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,816 × 4,740 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222321

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