British stars of stage and screen

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Robert Donat (and Madeleine Carroll) in Hitchcock's The Thirty Nine Steps (1935). He is wearing a brown and white hounds'-tooth suit that was made by Hawes & Curtis and ruined in the scene under the waterfall on the moors.



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Ronald Colman:



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Ray Milland:




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Clive Brook (and Mary Carlisle) in Love In Exile, 1936:



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Jack Buchanan (1938) at one end of one of his many transatlantic crossings:

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and belting it out in As Long As They're Happy at The Garrick Theatre (1953):




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Sir George Alexander (right):



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Sir Gerald du Maurier:



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Laurence Olivier

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David Niven

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Not really English but he spoke it and this is for his part in Barefoot in the Park; Charles Boyer and for teaching them how not be able to make a fist:



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John Gielgud, 1936


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John Gielgud, Emlyn Williams, Miss Cooke, little Alan Williams, Noël Coward, Dolly Williams (left to right), 1935

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Gertrude Lawrence and Noël Coward, 1935

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Ian Carmichael:



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THAT is one cool suit!