The Age of Glamour: 1930s celebrities in caricature - in pictures

After a performance in The Mask of Virtue, Vivien Leigh (left) was said to catch the eye of her future husband, Laurence Olivier. This Sherriffs caricature appeared in 1935
Photograph: RS Sherriffs/Cartoon Museum

The title of this piece for Sketch, in 1935, says it all: Conception of the Remote Austerity of Garbo
Photograph: RS Sherriffs/Cartoon Museum

Having realised his ambition to play Hamlet, Charlie Chaplin encounters unwelcome opposition. Published in a 1929 issue of London Calling Photograph: RS Sherriffs/Cartoon Museum

This illustration, published in the Sketch in 1933, imagines an interview between Ivor Novello and Shakespeare. The Bard remarks: 'Happy to have been of service to you, Sir', to which Mr. Novello replies: 'Same to you, Sir'
Photograph: RS Sherriffs/Cartoon Museum

A cartoonist's take on the original star-crossed lovers … Laurence Olivier and Peggy Ashcroft as Romeo and Juliet in 1935
Photograph: RS Sherriffs/Cartoon Museum

On beauty … Anne Leslie in Beauty and the Beast, in a caricature that was published in the Sketch in 1938
Photograph: RS Sherriffs/Cartoon Museum

Why so glum? In 1929 London Calling published this depiction of Buster Keaton in his first dramatic role, in The Laughing Cavalier
Photograph: RS Sherriffs/Cartoon Museum

Royal role … English actor Charles Laughton as Henry VIII, in this 1933 caricature
Photograph: RS Sherriffs/Cartoon Museum

Sherriff's take on a very funny Gracie Fields in The Rochdale Hunt, which was staged at the London Palladium
Photograph: RS Sherriffs/Cartoon Museum

Rebel with a cause … Clara Bow in Call Her Savage, her penultimate film role
Photograph: RS Sherriffs/Cartoon Museum

This illustration of the acclaimed Russian choreographer and dancer Léonide Massine in Symphonie Fantastique was published in a 1934 issue of the Sketch
Photograph: RS Sherriffs/Cartoon Museum

Baby Takes a Bow … a cherubic Shirley Temple from 1934
Photograph: RS Sherriffs/Cartoon Museum