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Description: | Born in San Francisco, Ernest Milton was predominantly a Shakespearean actor who joined the Old Vic company from 1918, where he performed a wide range of roles and was a notable Hamlet. From a full and varied career, including brief management of the Queen's Theatre, his key non-Shakespearean roles were as Rupert Cadell in Patrick Hamilton's Rope and as the lead in Pirandello's Henry IV. He was also an author of novels and plays.
Autograph letters written by Milton and various people to him, including fan letters (9 boxes)
Photographs of Milton in performance, and in private life (4 boxes)
Assorted books including Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Peeps into Persia, and play texts including Merchant of Venice and Richard III (4 boxes)
Collection of ephemera relating to the work of Naomi Royde Smith, wife of Milton, including part of the typed manuscript of her autobiography and scrapbooks containing cuttings reviewing her written work (5 boxes)
Sheet music, including works by Beethoven and Richard Strauss (2 boxes)
Stories and play texts by Ernest Milton and transcripts of interviews broadcast during the '50s and '60s (2 boxes)
Scrapbooks on his career (2 boxes)
Loose press cuttings relating to his career, and miscellaneous objects including a lock of his wife's hair in a decorative box (1 box)
Theatre programmes, predominantly 1950s, 1960s (1 box)
Diaries belonging to Ernest Milton (1 box)
Assorted notebooks and catalogues including Sotheby catalogues (1 box)
78rpm recording of Ernest Milton's To be or not to be speech from Hamlet (1 box)
Archive reference number: THM/325. | Format: | Correspondence Press cuttings Books Paper ephemera Photographs Diaries Sheet music Scrapbooks Programmes | Subjects: | 1564-1616 William Actors Theatre management Shakespeare | Temporal: | 1920-1969 20th century | Source: | Backstage | Address: | Blythe House, 23 Blythe Road,
W14 0QX | Creator: | Milton, Ernest, 1890-1974 | Identifier: | THM-325 | Format: | Correspondence Press cuttings Books Paper ephemera Photographs Diaries Sheet music Scrapbooks Programmes | Go to resource |
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