Author: Janet Jevons (Photo.)
Title: Frank Lawton and Evelyn Laye
Description: London: [Hollywood Studio], [Ca. 1930s]. Original hand colored real photograph issued as a postcard. 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Very Good+. Printed on verso: "Film Partners" Series, 85, Long Acre, London; No. PC 148. Made in Great Britain. Scarce. Frank Lawton (30 September 1904, St Giles, London - 10 June 1969, Marylebone, London) was an English actor. His parents were stage players Daisy May Collier and Frank Lawton (I). His first major screen credit was Young Woodley (1930). In the mid-1930s, Lawton appeared in some Hollywood films, most significant as the adult David Copperfield in MGM's classic literature adaptation of David Copperfield (1935). However, Lawton never made his big breakthrough in Hollywood and returned to British film and theatre. He was married to actress Evelyn Laye until his death. They acted together several times, including in the TV series My Husband and I. Evelyn Laye, CBE (10 July 1900 - 17 February 1996) was an English actress who was active on the London light opera stage, and later in New York and Hollywood. Her first husband, actor Sonnie Hale, left her for Jessie Matthews, earning much public sympathy for Laye. Her second husband was actor Frank Lawton, with whom she often appeared in stage productions. .

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