Margaret Webster: A Life in the Theater

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Ben Webster and May Whitty in the London theater in the early 1890s. (From the collection of Margaret Webster.) Margaret Webster in a fancy dress, London, 1909. (From the collection of Margaret Webster.) [To view this image, refer to the print version of this title.] [To view this image, refer to the print version of this title.] [To view this image, refer to the print version of this title.] Margaret Webster during a family outing, ca. 1914. (From the collection of Margaret Webster.) Margaret Webster as Portia in The Merchant of Venice at Queen Anne's School, 1918. (From the collection of Margaret Webster.) [To view this image, refer to the print version of this title.] [To view this image, refer to the print version of this title.] Margaret Webster, New York City, ca. 1939. (Billy Rose Theatre Collection, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.) [To view this image, refer to the print version of this title.] Maurice Evans as Richard II, production directed by Margaret Webster, Broadway, 1937. (Billy Rose Theatre Collection, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.) [To view this image, refer to the print version of this title.] Margaret Webster as Masha and Lynn Fontanne as Arkadina in The Seagull, Broadway, 1938. (Billy Rose Theatre Collection, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.) Helen Hayes as Viola and Maurice Evans as Malvolio during rehearsals for Twelfth Night with director Margaret Webster, Broadway, 1940. (Billy Rose Theatre Collection, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.) [To view this image, refer to the print version of this title.] [To view this image, refer to the print version of this title.] Dame May Whitty as the nurse in Romeo and Juliet, with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Broadway, 1940. (From the collection of Margaret Webster.) [To view this image, refer to the print version of this title.] Paul Robeson as Othello and Margaret Webster as Emilia in Othello, directed by Webster, Broadway, 1943. (Courtesy of Eileen Darby.) [To view this image, refer to the print version of this title.] Dame May Whitty and Ben Webster in the film Lassie Come Home, 1943. (Copyright © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.) Jean Webster-Brough, Webster's cousin and last relative, in Perchance to Dream, London, 1945. (From the collection of Margaret Webster.) [To view this image, refer to the print version of this title.] [To view this image, refer to the print version of this title.] Mady Christians, as the wife in the film All My Sons, ca. 1947. (Copyright © Universal-International, Inc.) Eva Le Gallienne, ca. 1940. (Courtesy of Helen Sheehy.) [To view this image, refer to the print version of this title.] [To view this image, refer to the print version of this title.] Margaret Webster at her cottage overlooking Menemsha Harbor, Martha's Vineyard, ca. 1940. (From the collection of Margaret Webster.) [To view this image, refer to the print version of this title.] Pamela Frankau, ca. 1940. (Courtesy of Diana Raymond.) Margaret Webster rehearsing the National Repertory Theatre cast of The Madwoman of Chaillot, ca. 1965. Left to right: Margaret Webster, Sylvia Sidney, Leora Dana, and Eva Le Gallienne. (Courtesy of Sloane Shelton.) [To view this image, refer to the print version of this title.] [To view this image, refer to the print version of this title.] Margaret Webster on Martha's Vineyard, 1971. (From the collections of the Library of Congress.) [To view this image, refer to the print version of this title.] ...