GILBERT (Olive Sarah, 1898-1981, Singer and Actress)

Fine Vintage Photo Signed and inscribed “With every good wish, Olive Gilbert as ‘Carmen’” showing her head and shoulders in costume with a headdress, looking over her shoulder and smiling, 8” x 6”, no place, no date, circa

In a career spanning seven decades, she performed first in opera and then in many of Ivor Novello's musicals in London's West End. After the First World War, Gilbert sang contralto and mezzo-soprano roles with the Carl Rosa Opera Company for more than a decade. She moved into musical theatre in 1935, appearing in Novello's Glamorous Night. She also had roles in his Careless Rapture (1936), Crest of the Wave (1937), The Dancing Years (1939), Arc de Triomphe (1943), Perchance to Dream (1945) and King's Rhapsody (1949).

Item Date:  1925

Stock No:  43329      £65

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