RG - Roy Gough Photographic Collection
- RG/6 - Beryl Booth-Gough's Personal Photographs
  - RG/6/1 - Beryl Booth's personal photographs, folder 1

RG/6/1/23

Reference code

RG/6/1/23

Level of description

Item

Title

Photograph of cat seated on a silk cushion with sign ''Ada' 'The Cat' 'Anastasia' 20th Century Fox Production'

Date

1950s

Scope and content

Photograph release by studios was originally captioned: CAT THAT LIVES LIKE A KING — On the set of “Anastasia”, shooting in London with Ingrid Bergman, Yul “The King & I” Brynner and Helen Hayes starred, Ada has it soft. She wandered on the stage one day to find excitement, and has had a cushiony time since. Director Anatole Litvak ordered that she be treated like a distinguished visitor, and she appears to find the 20th-Fox CinemaScope love drama absorbing.

Beryl was said by her cousin, Janet Rose, to have loved cats