Caught in the draft – 1940

Deanna Durbin – The Sketch – Wednesday 19th June 1940

Madame Tussauds during the London Blitz of 1940

 

Cecil Beaton, A wax head among the ruins of Madame Tussauds during the London Blitz of 1940

 

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Bride and groom c1940’s

Vivien Leigh by Laszlo Willinger – 1940

Rachel Lady Willoughby de Broke – The Tatler – 12th June 1940

 

Rachel Lady Willoughby de Broke poses in her uniform as Lady County Officer of the

St John’s Ambulance Association, Warwickshire, The Tatler – 12th June 1940

Newlyweds – 1940.

 

Newlyweds in Paris a few months before Germany invaded in 1940.

The Letter

 

The letter, photographed in London by Cecil Beaton 1940

Maureen O’Hara – The Tatler – Wednesday 14th February 1940

Maureen O’Hara relies on Ovaltine for Sound Sleep every night

 

MAUREEN O’HARA writes: “The exciting sequences of ‘Jamaica Inn’ gave me many hard and tiring moments. But I knew that by taking Ovaltine I could rely on sound sleep each night, and there was never a morning when I did not feel fresh and ready for work again.”

Sound, healthy sleep is the first essential for radiant fitness and vitality. And a “nightcap” of delicious ‘Ovaltine’ is the best and surest way of promoting the right kind of sleep every night. Long experience among countless thousands of people throughout the world has proved this fact beyond all possibility of doubt.

Make ‘Ovaltine’ your bedtime beverage and enjoy sound, restful sleep every night. ‘Ovaltine’ provides soothing nourishment to nerves and brain and quickly induces restorative, health – giving sleep from which you waken in the morning completely refreshed and invigorated.

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Drink delicious and note the Difference

The Tatler – Wednesday 14th February 1940

 

Ena Squire-Brown – 1940

 

Ena Squire-Brown leaves her recently bombed home for St George’s Church in Forest Hill, to marry Royal Air Force flying officer J.C. Martin in 1940. Picture Ministry of Information