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titles     on off  images   on off  sort by   title date  results per page         10  25  50  75  100    Eisenhower Day June 19, 1945 A ticker tape parade in honor of Eisenhower. Also images from Eisenhower leaving a rained out Yankee's game with New York Mayor LaGuardia. images available upon request LaGuardia with Mademoiselle Editor July 1, 1945 images available upon request Lilly Dache (Daché) August 6, 1945 Eileen Darby spends a day with well-known milliner turned fashion designer Lilly Daché. Ms. Daché can be seen approving fashion designs, trying on different hats and fashions, touring her eclectic home, and finally flying away on a chartered prop plane. 34 images » Follow The Girls September 8, 1945 A big hit musical comedy at 888 performances starring Gertrude Niesen and featuring a breakout supporting role for Jackie Gleason. The show produced the big hit song "I Wanna To Get Married" These photographs were taken at the Broadhurst Theatre. images available upon request Polonaise September 18, 1945 images available upon request You Touched Me September 25, 1945 The rehearsal of Tennessee Williams' play immediately following his success with The Glass Menagerie. He co-wrote the play with Donald Windham, based on the original story by D.H. Lawrence. The play stars Montgomery Clift and Edmund Gwenn at the Booth Theatre, New York. Produced by Guthrie McClintic. These images were taken opening day. 12 images » Hamlet December 13, 1945 featuring Maurice Evans 1 images » Billion Dollar Baby December 27, 1945 "A Musical Play of the Terrific Twenties" starring Joan McCracken, Directed by George Abbott, and Choreographed by Jerome Robbins. 1 images » Born Yesterday December 1945 Images from the rehearsal of Born Yesterday, while Jean Arthur was still in the cast as Billie Dawn. Arthur was replaced just before the show opened by Judy Holliday, who was in turn made a star by the role. The show also starred Gary Merrill and Paul Douglas, and was directed by Garson Kanin. 19 images » Cafe Society circa 1945 People who are in the social set that hang out in cafes, featuring Paula Laurence and Oscar Hammerstein II. 5 images » Deep Are The Roots circa 1945 Directed by Elia Kazan, starring a young 23 year old Barbera Bel Geddes in her debut, and Gordon Heath as Brett Charles. The show follows an heroic Negro soldier returning to his hometown in the deep south, only to face racial discrimination. 3 images » Dr. Martha May Eliot circa 1945 Dr. Martha May Eliot (April 7, 1891-February 14, 1978), a pioneer in maternal and child health, is seen in a sequence of photos as she cares for a child in a children's clinic in 1945. 3 images » Opening of "Therese" circa 1945 Photographs showing the opening of the play Therese at the Biltmore Theatre, featuring Leonard Bernstein, Dame May Witty, Eva Le Gallienne, and others. 9 images » Polonaise circa 1945 These images are from the rehearsal of Polonaise, a musical based on Chopin. Lyrics by John Latouche, music by Frédéric Chopin, and starring Marta Eggerth and Jan Kiepura. 7 images » The Rugged Path circa 1945 Written by Robert E. Sherwood, directed by Garson Kanin, set design by Jo Mielziner, and starring Spencer Tracy. Tracy plays a newspaper man who overshoots his boundries as an editor, only to escape the fallout by joining the Navy and meeting his demise on an island at the hands of Japanese forces. images available upon request Wilkens' Fashion circa 1945 A photographic essay on the popular work of award-winning 1940's children's fashion designer Emily Wilkens. Several of the images in this collection were published in Life Magazine on April 9, 1945. 10 images » George Balanchine March 22, 1946 Reknown choreographer teaching at the American School of Ballet in New York. images available upon request Arms And The Man March 28, 1946 images available upon request London England April 22, 1946 A spring day spent while on assignment in London. Several interesting shots, including the rooftop of the New Theatre with the Old Vic Players. 8 images » The Old Vic April 1946 In March of 1946 Eileen Darby embarked on a photo assignment to cover several productions taking place at the well known Shakespearean theatre The Old Vic in London. The images notably include Sir Laurence Olivier in Oedipus, as well as productions of Henry IV and The Critic. The images were combined into a photo story for LIFE magazine, including the cover page featuring Margaret Leighton, which was published May 6th, 1946. 83 images » Annie Get Your Gun May 1946 Ethel Merman stars as Annie Oakley and Ray Middleton as Frank Butler in the Broadway classic with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Set Design by Jo Mielziner and Produced by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. 18 images » Gregory Peck: Dennis Playhouse July 9, 1946 Gregory Peck is shown in Cape Cod working in summer theatre at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts. The play shown is Playboy of the Western World. From these images its easy to see how Peck went on to become one of the most famous of Hollywood leading men. 15 images » Central Park August 11, 1946 A series of personal photographs taken in Central Park in 1946, including some nice views of the New York skyline and the gorillas in the zoo. 4 images » Cyrano De Bergerac October 28, 1946 Starring Jose Ferrar as Cyrano De Bergerac as an unattractive master wordsmith wooing the woman he loves on behalf of his more conventionally handsome but ignorant friend with whom she is in love. Ferrar is shown in a series of images applying his fantastic nose prosthetic makeup. 7 images » Duchess Of Malfi October 1946 starring Canada Lee in white face makeup - the first African-American to play a white man on Broadway. images available upon request « no results match your search » Only 284 of the 1835 shows Eileen Darby photographed have made it to our website so far contact us and we may be able to find what you are looking for.

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