Leonard Bentley
Piccadilly Circus: 1957
This is a J. Arthur Dixon Ltd photogravure postcard showing Piccadilly Circus looking north towards Shaftesbury Avenue from the junction with Lower Regent Street. It is the first week of May 1957 and the Civil War western, “Drango” is showing at the London Pavilion starring Ira Grossel aka Jeff Chandler. He died in 1961 at 43 years of age after complications during an operation for a herniated disc. In 1999, the film actress Esther Williams claimed to have had an affair with Chandler but had ended it after she discovered that he was a cross dresser. His friends and family have always claimed that this was untrue, I must say that he always presented himself in films as a very masculine man and was one of the very few Hollywood actors who had served in the military during WW2.
Piccadilly Circus: 1957
This is a J. Arthur Dixon Ltd photogravure postcard showing Piccadilly Circus looking north towards Shaftesbury Avenue from the junction with Lower Regent Street. It is the first week of May 1957 and the Civil War western, “Drango” is showing at the London Pavilion starring Ira Grossel aka Jeff Chandler. He died in 1961 at 43 years of age after complications during an operation for a herniated disc. In 1999, the film actress Esther Williams claimed to have had an affair with Chandler but had ended it after she discovered that he was a cross dresser. His friends and family have always claimed that this was untrue, I must say that he always presented himself in films as a very masculine man and was one of the very few Hollywood actors who had served in the military during WW2.