Paula Newman, Actress, costume designer and artist (1894-?) ...

Hammer

£600

Paula Newman, Actress, costume designer and artist (1894-?) - An album of black and white photographs and newspaper cuttings, particularly covering her career as costume designer for films, including notes from Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) - ‘’Sorry we shan’t be able to be with you tonight, Hitch’’ and Gracie Fields (1898-1979) - ‘’Just a wee present from me & thanking you for all your nice help, Gracie Fields’’, together with signed and inscribed portrait photographs of Gracie Fields; Marie Lohr; Billie de la Volta; Gina Malo; Nova Pilbeam; Lili Palmer; Norma Varden; Constance Cummings; Patricia Bowman; Binnie Barnes; Thelma Todd; Enid Stamp-Taylor; Bebe Daniels; Sally Eilers; Nancy Burne; Greta Nissen; Raquel Torres; Dorothy Hyson; Marian Marsh; Vera Pearce; Anna Lee; Diana Churchill; Glennis Lorimer; Jane Baxter; Jean Winstanley; Marianne Davis; Rene Ray and Merle Tottenham (in the same photo) and Maria Scarafia.
Paula Newman designed costumes for numerous films, including - ‘’Red Wagon’’ (1933), ‘’On Secret Service’’ (1933), ‘’Love at Second Sight’’ (1934), ‘’Everybody Dance’’ (1936) and ‘’Come dance with me’’ (1950).