The Windmill Girls
Publicty Photographs of the Windmill
Girls in various poses from the Windmill Theatre Tableaux
Above - A Windmill Theatre Publicity Photograph. Left to right are Lucy Winters, Jo Saunders, Honor Chapman
and Eileen
Wooding. The photograph was reproduced in the Windmill Theatre souvenir
programme no.37.
Above - A Windmill Theatre Publicity Photograph
- Back row standing left to right are Honor Chapman, Lucy Winters,
Jennifer Betteridge and Adele Cornell. Seated left to right are Brenda
Mills , Gina Delrina and Shendah Pearce. And standing in the centre
of the photograph is Iris Chapple.
Above - A Windmill Theatre Publicity Photograph.
Seated left to right are Rita Hammerton, Mandy Mayer, Elizabeth
Hill, and Iris White, and posing centre is Jennifer Betteridge.
Above - Air-craft legs of Windmill Girls in the air minded "Our
Flying Start" opening number of the new Vivian Van Damm production
- 'Film and Art Reel' Click to see the article
this image comes from.
Above - Heather Fitzsimmons in a Windmill Theatre Publicity Photograph
which was reproduced in the Windmill
Theatre souvenir no.37.
Above - Image from the Revudeville programme 32 - Click to see the Programme
Above - "Heading for a cruise" - The Revudebelles, showing
Valerie, Eileen, Betty, Jean, Margaret, Lya, and Joyce Stemp. From
the Windmill Theatre Revudeville Programme (104) for the 25th April,
1938. - Courtesy Maurice Poole. VALERIE, EILEEN, BETTY, JEAN, MARGARET, LYA and JOYCE STEMP.
Above - A 1950s Windmill Theatre photograph, possibly taken by
a Camera Club member - Courtesy Maurice Poole.
Above - A 1940's official Windmill Theatre Co., Ltd photograph.
The tableau artiste on the right hand side of the photograph appears
to be Joan Rock - Photograph Courtesy Maurice Poole.
Above - Laura Henderson and members of the Windmill Theatre cast
of 'When Knights were Cold' pose for a photograph to celebrate the
6th anniversary of 'Revudeville' on the 4th of February, 1938, shown
in the Revudeville programme No.98. 'When Knights were Cold' commenced
on Monday the 8th of November, 1937. Reg O 'List and Joan Rock are
in the photograph as is Laura Henderson (Centre) - Courtesy the Jill
Millard Shapiro collection.
Above - A Publicty Photograph of two of the Windmill
Girls, Gerry Oldham left and Ray Johnson right, which was also used
in the Revudeville no.148 "Snice in Iceland".
Above - A publicity photograph of Ray Johnson and other Windmill
Girls which was also featured in the Windmill Theatre Souvenir programme
15 and Revudeville programme 156
Above - A publicity photograph of Ray Johnson which was also
featured in the Windmill Theatre Souvenir programme 15 and Revudeville
programme 156
Above - A Publicty Photograph of Ray Johnson and David Dale also
used in the Windmill Theatre Revudeville no.156. Souvenir no.14 "Champagne
for Breakfast".
Above - A Publicty Photograph of the Windmill Girls in various
poses from the Windmill Theatre Tableaux which was also used in the
Windmill Theatre Revudeville no.158. "Musical Comedy Reminiscences"
with John Coleman, Jack Lockyer, Dickie Martyn, Ray Johnson, Olive
Wright, Fay Hollingsworth, Diana Decker and the Revudebelles. This
is the only revue with 3 men and 4 women plus the Revudebelles in
the programme. The 4 Revudebelles are at the back of the photograph,
one being Huia.
Above - Publicty Photographs of the Windmill Girls in various
poses from the Windmill Theatre Tableaux.
Above - A Windmill Theatre publicity photograph - Caption Reads
'Lucky Hal Bryan surrounded by lovely Stewardess in the Cruising scene
in Revudeville 104 at the Windmill Theatre". - Courtesy Maurice Poole who says:
'This photograph was in the official souvenir programme Nos. 101-114.
To the right of Hal Bryan is Lya Leigh, the girl with the black hair.
Lya was photographed for the first nude photograph to appear in a
British newspaper, 'The North London Recorder.' That photograph
was published on 12th August, 1938 and featured a scene with Lya on
a cross with a gas mask on. The photograph and many others of Lya
were taken by Roye. I have the standard programme for Revudeville
104, and the Revudebelles in the scene are Jean, Lya, Eileen, Betty,
Valerie, and Margaret. Standing left to right at the back of this
photograph are Valerie and Jean, and standing left to right in front
are Eileen, Margaret, Lya and Betty.'
Above - A Publicity Photograph of some of the Windmill Girls -
Courtesy Kevin Mayger, whose mother, Marlene Cork, passed away in
2011 and is captioned in the photograph. Artistes featured in the
photograph are Left to Right Marlene Cork, Hala Duncan, Eileen Wooding,
and Rita Hammerton.
Above - A Publicity Photograph of some of the Windmill Girls -
Courtesy Kevin Mayger, whose mother, Marlene Cork, passed away in
2011 and is captioned in the photograph. The artistes in this photograph
are Honor Chapman posing in the background, Fan dancers L to R Marlene
Cork and Brenda Mills.
Above - A Publicity Photograph of some of the Windmill Girls -
Courtesy Kevin Mayger, whose mother, Marlene Cork, passed away in
2011 and is captioned in the photograph. Posing in the background
is Honor Chapman and in the forground are L to R Marlene Cork, Brenda
Mills and Vera Florey.
Above - A Publicity Photograph of some of the Windmill Girls -
Courtesy Kevin Mayger, whose mother, Marlene Cork, passed away in
2011 and is captioned in the photograph - Posing L to R in the background
are Honor Chapman and Elizabeth Hill, and foreground L to R , Vera
Florey, Marlene Cork and Brenda Mills.