Dame Sybil Thorndike

Vita Sackville-West —although St John's death brought her the horrifying discovery of the love-journal recording their relationship—wrote to The Times celebrating her as a roaringly rumbustious character in the grand tradition of English eccentrics.

IH later said she went to hundreds of schools, all of them for about half an hour. I was rebellious. She attended Maida Vale Girls' High School sporadically until she was...

Among CD 's many friends were Sybil Thorndike , Lewis Casson , Noël Coward , and Alfred Hitchcock . Coward valued her friendship and her perceptive criticism of his work very highly, and used her...

Her aunt Eliza Aria introduced the very young PF to many of her older, god-like friends: first of all actress Sybil Thorndike and writers Michael Arlen and Osbert Sitwell . Later came John Van Druten

During this period, the Russells' friends and associates included Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson , Ottoline Morrell , T. S. Eliot , W. B. Yeats , G. B. and Charlotte Shaw , Desmond MacCarthy ...

The friends of EN 's last years, both old and new, included Marshall Steele , Edward Andrade , actresses Athene Seyler and Sybil Thorndike , and writers Noël Coward , G. B. Stern , Lord Dunsany

Sybil Thorndike presided over the dinner, and Queen Mary sent her congratulations. EC was presented with a cheque and a scroll signed by two hundred friends. Playwright Cicely Hamilton was among the speakers who paid...

Saint Joan, a history play by GBS responding to Joan 's recent canonization, had its London opening at the New Theatre , starring Sybil Thorndike . The role was crucial for Thorndike, who was...

In addition to a memorial service and speeches, these annual tributes usually included scenes from Shakespeare performed by well-known actors such as John Gielgud and Sybil Thorndike . Playwright Clemence Dane gave a memorial speech...

EB 's play Call Me Jacky, starring Sybil Thorndike , opened at the OxfordPlayhouse ; the audience, composed mainly of undergraduates, booed and hissed during the performance.

Since it was directed by David O. Selznick , who had recently produced Gone with the Wind (1939), the play drew a number of Hollywood stars and writers on the first night. It was not...

One of CD 's last plays, Eighty in the Shade, written for Sybil Thorndike , opened at the Globe Theatre , London.

After the war, PB continued to be politically active, often writing letters to the editor of the Times on subjects like liberalism and human rights in South Africa. In the issue dated 14 December 1951...

Another of her plays of the thirties that she mentions is Mariners, based on the local clergyman of her childhood and the private tragedy of his wife. The couple were played by Lewis Casson

For the first volume, she chose A Bill of Divorcement, Till Time Shall End, Scandal at Coventry, Granite, and Wild Decembers. In the preface to this volume she states: For...