Caesar and Cleopatra (play)
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Caesar and Cleopatra is a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw that depicts a fictionalised account of the relationship between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra. It was first published with Captain
Gertrude Elliott and Johnston Forbes-Robertson in Caesar and Cleopatra, New York, 1906
Mrs Patrick (Stella) Campbell
Johnston Forbes-Robertson as Caesar, 1906
Scene from London premiere, 1907: from left Gertrude Elliott (Cleopatra), Lewis Willoughby (Apollodorus), Percy Rhodes (Rufio), Johnston Forbes-Robertson (Caesar), A. Wheatman (Major Domo)
John Gielgud
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Sir Arthur John Gielgud was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. With Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trinity of actors who dominated the
Gielgud as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, 1959
Centre: Marion, Kate and Ellen Terry and, far right, Fred Terry at Ellen's Silver Jubilee matinée, Drury Lane, 12 June 1906. Everyone shown was a member of the Terry family.
Noël Coward with Lilian Braithwaite, his, and later Gielgud's, co-star in The Vortex
The Old Vic (photographed in 2012), where Gielgud honed his skill as a Shakespearean