NORA KERIN : BEAUTIFUL BUT NOT SO TALENTED THEATER ACTRESS: RPPC

Description: This vintage real photo postcard features actress Miss Nora Kerin (1883-1970). The image on this card captures her in costume for her role in "The Prince and the Beggar Maid". The actress was born in London and her family was chock full of actresses including sister, Eileen Kerin and cousin Julia Neilson, Lily Hanbury, and Hilda Hanbury. Nora Kerin made her stage debut in 1899. In conducting my preliminary research about Nora Kerin, I was struck by the number of negative reviews of her acting that I encountered. One review concerned her performance as Juliet in “Romeo and Juliet”. The production was at the Lyceum Theater in 1908 and the review appeared in London’s “Daily Mail”. The reviewer wrote “‘Oh, Juliet. Juliet, wherefore art thou Juliet?’ This is, of course, an inversion and a parody; but, seriously, the Juliet of Miss Nora Kerin cannot be taken so. She declaims in the conventional old-fashioned style. She somehow destroys – on the stage – her own personality, and instead of looking the pink of charm and youth (as she is when “taking a call”) she manages to conceal both. Many of her lines were badly spoken, falsely intonated and punctuated. She had moments … melodramatic outbursts … but she is not the personality … she has not the witching simplicity of the real Juliet”. Clearly, Miss Kerin was not a luminary actress of her time. However, she was quite pretty and fifteen portraits of her can be seen in the National Portrait Gallery. This vintage postcard was published by Rotary Photo as part of a series (No.1796Z). Kerin's photograph was taken by female celebrity photographer, Rita Martin. This real photo postcard is in very good condition (see scans).

Price: 16 USD

Location: Northport, New York

End Time: 2024-11-19T16:35:50.000Z

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