Igenlode's Sonnie Hale page

Last updated Tuesday 3rd September, 2013

This is a holding page pointing to the various data I have uploaded related to actor SONNIE HALE.

Images

Various images redrawn by me in pencil, either because the original photocopy was too poor to be usable or because mechanical reproduction was prohibited in order to protect the materials in question.

• Sonnie Hale and Jan Kiepura: My Song for You
• Shine-Ho: Sonnie Hale in 'Happy Ever After'
• Jessie Matthews and Sonnie Hale open new Granada Cinema, Kingston (from regional newspaper coverage)
• Fan magazine coverage of Jessie's first pregnancy: Jessie and Sonnie at home in Hampton

Photos (all scanned from poor quality photocopies)

• Happy Britishers: an American fan magazine runs an article on the Hale/Matthews ménage
• Family on the beach: Sonnie and Jessie play with their daughter in the last summer before the war
• Assorted photos, from obituary coverage and elsewhere.
• Four more press portraits, relating to his first and second marriages.
• Images from Sonnie Hale's early career (1921-1925).

And just for fun...

• Lookalikes: my page of actors who have reminded me of Sonnie!

Longer articles

• On With the Dance: material relating to Sonnie's appearance with his sister Binnie in the "On With the Dance" series of short films in 1927.
• Sonnie Hale and The Punch Bowl: newspaper coverage of Sonnie's first big personal success.
• Bringing Up Father: a column credited to Sonnie Hale which appeared in The People on April 26 1925.
• Sonnie Hale in My Song for You: a detailed summary of Sonnie's role in this Jan Kiepura musical film
• Come Out to Play: regional newspaper coverage of the premiere of Sonnie's 'emergency revue'.
• "I Can Take It": regional newspaper coverage of Sonnie and Jessie's return to the stage in 1939, from the Glasgow Herald and Glasgow Evening News.
• The French Mistress: regional newspaper coverage of the production that would reach the West End in 1959.
• (See also a programme transcript from the 1955 production...)
• "Sonnie Hale Comeback": national coverage of "The French Mistress" at Windsor.
• Programme transcript from That'll be the Day (1945 production — subsequently toured Allied forces in Europe)
• Obituaries: Sonnie Hale's death was considered noteworthy by a wide range of publications (updated Feb 2010)
• The stage career of Sonnie Hale: an attempt to trace all his roles in the musical and straight theatre, 1921-1959 (including some TV performances!)