Gallery — Dame Gillian Lynne DBE

GALLERY

A selection of photos from different areas of Gillian Lynne’s life - click on the View Album button to view that individual section and see enlarged images with captions

EARLY BEGINNINGS

Gillie's mother Barbara

Gillie with father Leslie

War forced the Cone Ripman School - later to become ArtsEd - to relocate to Loddington Hall in Leicestershire - 1941

Gillian at the cottage at Birchington-on-Sea in Kent

Madeleine Sharp's dance class

BALLET LIFE

Covent Garden 1948 - Symphonic Variations - Moira Shearer, John Hart, Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes, Gillian Lynne, Alexander Grant

ENSA girl on tours to GB and Europe - 1945

Sadler's Wells, Covent Garden - Fairy of the Enchanted Garden, Sleeping Beauty - 1946

With Gerd Larsen in Beverley Hills - Sadler's Wells US Tour - 1950

Waiting underneath the stage of the Royal Opera House to go on as The Fairy Winter in Cinderella

Gillian Lynne and Alex Rassine as The Lovers can be seen on the far left in 1950 Covent Garden production of Miracle in the Gorbals with Robert Helpman and Pauline Clayden (centre)

directing, choreographing and performing

Gillian rehearsing the cast on the set of Alice in Wonderland - 1986

A Midsummer Night's Dream - RSC Stratford & Aldwych Theatre, London 197

Rehearsing with Sammy Davis Jr and Natalie Gregory - Alice in Wonderland 1986

A Simple Man - BBC & Northern Ballet Theatre 1987 - Gillian seen here with Christopher Gable

Cinderella - Adelphi Theatre, London 1960 - Gillian as The Crystal Fairy

Dear World - Charing Cross Theatre 2013 - Gillian directed and choreographed the production that starred Betty Buckley and Paul Nicholas

Cats and Phantom of the opera

Betty Buckley as Grizabella - New York 1982

Gillian with Trevor Nunn and Terrence Mann - Cats rehearsals, New York 1982

Gillian receiving the OLivier Award in 2013 seen here with David Suchet, Michael Crawford and the Cats Company

Cats - China 2018

Cats closing night - London 2002 - Brian Blessed, Trevor Nunn, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cameron Mackintosh, Gillian and David Hersey

Cats company - London 1981

WONDERFUL MEMORIES

With Sir John Mills and David Mallett during filming of the Cats Video 1998

Working with Dudley Moore on the show Collages in 1963

Meeting Queen Elizabeth at the Royal Command Performance, London Palladium 1989 where she danced in her own production of A Simple Man alongside Christopher Gable and the Northern Ballet Theatre

With composer Carl Davis on A Simple Man - 1987

Gillian Lynne receiving the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award in 2001 seen here alongside Antoinette Sibley and Beryl Grey

200 Motels - Film 1971

Unless specifically credited, all photos © Lynne & Land Collection