The First Churchills

David Giles (director)
Donald Wilson (screenwriter)
John Neville, Susan Hampshire, John Standing, Margaret Tyzack (starring)

London: Camera Press, Circa 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 television serial, showing actors John Westbrook, Roger Mutton, and John Rapley. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of the PIX Agency, a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers (as well as those still living in Europe) and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969.

A one-season television series which dramatized the lives of John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, and his wife Sarah. The show originally aired in the UK on BBC on September 27, 1969, and was aired two years later in the US on PBS' long-running Masterpiece Classic series.

9.5 x 8 inches. Near Fine.


[Book #150206]