Two characters played by Shaun Glenville, one in male and one in female garb. Photographic print by Fielding, 191-.

Shaun Glenville. Fielding, Leeds

Part of James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.

A double-exposure of Shaun Glenville, in drag wearing a head garment and white gloves, looking at himself as a smartly dressed man. The Irish comic actor Shaun Glenville (1884-1968) married the singing comic actress Dorothy Ward, and for many years they appeared together in pantomime, with him as dame and her in male drag as Principal Boy. Their gay son, the distinguished actor and theatre director Peter Glenville (1913-1996) once remarked "It's no wonder I'm not 'normal' , I grew up constantly seeing my father in a frock and my mother in trousers" (Douglas Byng in interview with James Gardiner, 1984)

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Item Information:

Identifier: 6108vb53s
Collection: James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
Institution: Wellcome Library
Date Issued: 1910 to 1919?
Genre: Photographs
Prints
Topic(s): Female impersonators
Resource Type: Still Image
Analog Format: 1 photograph : photoprint ;
Rights: Copyright undetermined
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