✿ Field's breakthrough came in 1960 when she was chosen by Tony Richardson to play the role of model Tina Lapford in The Entertainer (1960), starring Laurence Olivier, distributed by Bryanston Films. 'It was Tony Richardson I owe it all to,' she said later.
She had a support part in Beat Girl (1960) then appeared in probably her best known role as Doreen, the would-be girlfriend of rebellious Arthur Seaton (played by Albert Finney), in the New Wave film for Bryanston, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960).
Field starred alongside Kenneth More in Man in the Moon (1960). With those big film starring roles in 1960, she became one of the very few actors ever to have their name above the titles in all the major cinemas around Leicester Square simultaneously.
Shirley Anne Field
Field's breakthrough came in 1960 when she was chosen by Tony Richardson to play the role of model Tina Lapford in The Entertainer (1960), starring Laurence Olivier, distributed by Bryanston Films. "It was Tony Richardson I owe it all to," she said later.
She had a support part in Beat Girl (1960) then appeared in probably her best known role as Doreen, the would-be girlfriend of rebellious Arthur Seaton (played by Albert Finney), in the New Wave film for Bryanston, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960).
Field starred alongside Kenneth More in Man in the Moon (1960). With those big film starring roles in 1960, she became one of the very few actors ever to have their name above the titles in all the major cinemas around Leicester Square simultaneously.
✿ David Niven (1910 – 1983) was an English actor, memoirist and novelist. His many roles included Squadron Leader Peter Carter in A Matter of Life and Death, Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days, and Sir Charles Lytton ('the Phantom') in The Pink Panther. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Separate Tables (1958).
Niven appeared in nearly a hundred films, and many shows for television. He also began writing books, with considerable commercial success. In 1982 he appeared in Blake Edwards' final 'Pink Panther' films Trail of the Pink Panther and Curse of the Pink Panther, reprising his role as Sir Charles Lytton.
David Niven
David Niven (1910 – 1983) was an English actor, memoirist and novelist. His many roles included Squadron Leader Peter Carter in A Matter of Life and Death, Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days, and Sir Charles Lytton ("the Phantom") in The Pink Panther. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Separate Tables (1958).
Niven appeared in nearly a hundred films, and many shows for television. He also began writing books, with considerable commercial success. In 1982 he appeared in Blake Edwards' final "Pink Panther" films Trail of the Pink Panther and Curse of the Pink Panther, reprising his role as Sir Charles Lytton.
✿ Sonia Dresdel (1909 - 1976) was an English actress, whose career ran between the 1940s and 1970s.
Her performance in the lead role of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at the Westminster Theatre in 1942 'was legendary. It was the performance on which her reputation was founded. James Agate was ecstatic. For a decade Dresdel was regarded as one of England's foremost stage actresses.[Her leading role in the 1947 film While I Live also gained her a great deal of acclaim.
Her best remembered role is as Mrs. Baines in the film version of Graham Greene's The Fallen Idol (1948), which starred Ralph Richardson and Michèle Morgan.
While I Live (1947)
The Fallen Idol (1948)
The Third Visitor (1951)
The Clouded Yellow (1951)
Sonia Dresdel
Sonia Dresdel (1909 - 1976) was an English actress, whose career ran between the 1940s and 1970s.
Her performance in the lead role of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at the Westminster Theatre in 1942 "was legendary. It was the performance on which her reputation was founded. James Agate was ecstatic. For a decade Dresdel was regarded as one of England's foremost stage actresses.[Her leading role in the 1947 film While I Live also gained her a great deal of acclaim.
Her best remembered role is as Mrs. Baines in the film version of Graham Greene's The Fallen Idol (1948), which starred Ralph Richardson and Michèle Morgan.
While I Live (1947)
The Fallen Idol (1948)
The Third Visitor (1951)
The Clouded Yellow (1951)
✿ Oliver Norvell Hardy (1892 – 1957) was an American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted from 1927 to 1955. He appeared with his comedy partner Stan Laurel in 107 short films, feature films, and cameo roles.
In most of his silent films before joining producer Hal Roach, he was billed on screen as Babe Hardy.
Oliver Hardy
Oliver Norvell Hardy (1892 – 1957) was an American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted from 1927 to 1955. He appeared with his comedy partner Stan Laurel in 107 short films, feature films, and cameo roles.
In most of his silent films before joining producer Hal Roach, he was billed on screen as Babe Hardy.
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