'PACK! WE ARE LEAVING' THANK GOODNESS!

TO QUOTE, #PeterCushing as Baron Frankenstein in #Hammerfilms 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed' (1969) 'PACK! We Are Leaving!' . .

 

ABOVE: A rare candid photograph of Peter Cushing and his wife, Helen in 1948, about to set sail with Laurence Olivier Company on a tour of Australia and New Zealand... a well-timed and much appreciated opportunity for the Cushing's, after a lean period of 'resting', tough provincial theatres and damp, accommodation, that compromised Peter's and Helen health. A lung weakness, from which Helen would never fully recover . . . 

 

N.B: We know about Peter's half of thumbnail, his false front tooth on a plate, the scar on his nose, we know how he got these little 'personal' but interesting points of character but .... no one has mentioned the walking cane that Peter is using here in this photograph.... I am blowing the cobwebs off my brain, memory and thinking hard, for the answer 😕 Did I once know and have now forgotten? Huh! Can't remember... maybe you do??  

 

ABOVE: PETER AND HELEN CUSHING, Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh arrive at Freemantle, Australia with the Old Vic Theatre Company....during their tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1948.... they performed Shakespeare's Richard III and Sheridan's 'School for Scandal'.... (A: Helen Cushing B: Peter Cushing C: Laurence Olivier.

 

OLIVIER'S FILM production of 'HAMLET' .... starring Peter Cushing as Osric... and it is allegedly believed, to be 'someone else' as the 'spear carrier ' in the far left of the frame....

 

 

CREATING 'BEAUTY' while resting. How Peter Cushing made a living while resting and how one item became a 'star' in its own right! 

 

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