Alan Haynes and Terry Gardener performing in drag in their revue 'Why go to Paris". Photograph, 1950.

Date:
1950
Reference:
2045177i
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The James Gardiner Collection.
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Alan Haynes and Terry Gardener performing in drag in their revue 'Why go to Paris". Photograph, 1950. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Photograph of Alan Haynes and Terry Gardener wearing matching costumes and hats posing during a performance illuminated by a spotlight.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1950.

Physical description

1 photograph : print ; 8.9 x 6.8 cm

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Contributors

Lettering

To Arthur (?) every good wish, Alan & Terry (written in blue ink, verso) To Arthur sincerely (?) Alan Haynes + Terry Gardener (written faintly in blue ink, recto) Bears number: 319 (written in black ink, verso) Why go to Paris 4/9/50 (written in blue ink, top verso)

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "Small snapshot of Alan Haynes and Terry Gardener, two of the original stars of 'We were in the Forces', one of the first touring drag revues which toured the UK so successfully from 1944 into the early 1950s. The catalogued item has been autographed recto and verso by both of them, and shows them costumed for their revue 'Why go to Paris', 1950. Soon after this photograph was taken, Haynes teamed up with the then unknown Danny Carroll, before he changed his name to Danny LaRue and became perhaps the best known British drag star of the second half of the twentieth century. Haynes (1918-2008) and Gardener both continued to perform into old age."
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Reference

Wellcome Collection 2045177i

Ownership note

Gifted to James Gardiner from Terry Gardener in 1991.

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  • Photograph album labelled ‘Drag'

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