Thursday, April 25, 2024

Estelle Winwood

Estelle Winwood (Estelle Ruth Goodwin, 1883-1984) in HELEN WITH THE HIGH HAND (1917). Photo by James Abbe (1883-1973)


Carroll played Slender in Estelle Winwood and (her husband) Robert Henderson’s production of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, which ran for four performances at the Empire Theatre in April 1938; Winwood appeared as Mistress Margaret Page. (Lex Barker was a member of the Ensemble.)

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  1. Estelle Winwood, and her contemporary Gladys Cooper, set fashion trends for women in Great Britain. -Rj

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    1. I think the fashions for women in the 1910s so interesting: they always seem to have extraneous bits and bobs, as if the designer or the wearer can’t quite bear to give them up. A decade later a lot of those elements simply vanished.

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