Jean Forbes-Robertson played Peter Pan from 1927 to 1935 (reprising the role one last time in 1939). She had that elfin quality that made her one of the most popular Peter Pan ever and was the inspiration for E H Shepard's design of his Peter Pan silhouette for the Peter Pan League in 1929. She came from a family of artists and actors: her father was the actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson, her mother the actress Gertrude Elliott, her aunt the American actress Maxine Elliott, her uncle the actor Norman Forbes-Robertson. Her daughter, the actress Joanna Van Gyseghem, has kindly shared with this site previously unseen photos of her mother in her role of Peter Pan, which you can see here https://jmbarrie.co.uk/search?q=Jean+Forbes-Robertson&category=.
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