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July 23, 2009

Peter Pan


Date: 20-12-1904
Poster by Charles Buchel, advertising the first production of Peter Pan in December 1904.

Date: 27-12-1904
Nina Boucicault as Peter Pan in the first London production

Date: 27-12-1904
Pauline Chase as one of the twins in the pillow dance, in the first London production of Peter Pan. Pauline was to play the title role from 1906 to 1913.

Date: 27-12-1904
Pauline Chase as one of the twins in the first London production of Peter Pan (close up). Pauline was to play the title role from 1906 to 1913.

Date: 27-12-1904
Peter (Nina Boucicault) following his defeat of Captain Hook, in a tableaux based on the celebrated painting by Orchardson of Napoleon on the Bellerophon, following his defeat at Waterloo. From the original 1904 production of Peter Pan.

Date: 27-12-1904
The final Napoleonic tableaux from the first production of Peter Pan in December 1904. Peter - dressed as Napoleon and played by Nina Boucicault, poses after the celebrated painting by Orchardson. (Close up)

Date: 27-12-1904
Peter Pan (Nina Boucicault) and Wendy (Hilda Trevelyan) in their tree house at the end of the original 1904 production

Date: 18-12-1906
Pauline Chase as Peter Pan (dressed as Napoleon after defeating Captain Hook) in December 1907

Date: 00-08-1911
One of F D Bedford's illustrations to "Peter & Wendy" - Barrie's novelisation of Peter Pan. August 1911.

Date: 00-08-1911
One of F D Bedford's illustrations to Peter & Wendy - Barrie's 1911 novelization of Peter Pan, which I used as the frontispiece to my biography.

Date: 00-01-1913
Illustration from "The Peter Pan Storybook", signed by Pauline Chase in January 1913

Date: 00-12-1917
Fay Compton as Peter Pan - dressed up as Napoleon after defeating Captain Hook - in December 1917. Charles Frohman was a great admirer of Napoleon, and had a bust of the Ogre on his desk. It was probably to please Frohman that Barrie added the Napoleonic flourish.

Date: 00-12-1969
Hayley Mills as Peter Pan in December 1969

Date: 00-12-1969
Hayley Mills as Peter Pan in December 1969

Date: 00-12-1969
Hayley Mills as Peter Pan in December 1969

Date: 00-06-1975
Mia Farrow as Peter Pan in the Hallmark/NBC production, photographed by AB in June 1975.