• Nancy O'Neil
  | birth_place = [[Sydney]] <br /> [[Australia]] [[Category:British film actresses]]
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• Esma Cannon
  ...remembered as a film actress, with a lengthy career in British productions from the 1930s to the 1960s. ...e year.<ref>{{cite news|title=Gossip of the Theatres|work=Referee|location=Sydney|date=9 December 1914}}</ref> She was given children's parts well into adult
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• Mavis Villiers
  | birth_place = [[Neutral Bay, New South Wales|Neutral Bay]], [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]] ...stry.com; accessed 25 July 2015.</ref> Her stage name, Villiers, was taken from her maternal grandfather.<ref>[http://www.omnilexica.com/?q=mavis+villiers+
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• Here Come the Huggetts
  | writer = [[Muriel Box]]<br />[[Sydney Box]]<br />[[Peter Rogers]]<br />Denis Constanduros<br />[[Mabel Constandur ...EILjAD#v=onepage&q=sydney%20box%20film%20producer&f=false Andrew Spicer, ''Sydney Box'' Manchester Uni Press 2006 p 210]</ref>
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• Janet Brown
  ...ir of Nurse Gladys Emmanuel'', written by [[Roy Clarke]] and directed by [[Sydney Lotterby]]. Produced by Lotterby for the [[BBC]], and first broadcast on Su ...was married to ''[[Carry On films|Carry On]]'' actor [[Peter Butterworth]] from 1946 until his death in 1979.<ref name="Tel obit"/><ref name="Tel dies">{{C
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• Phyllida Law
  ...d hours"; when the war broke out, he went into the air force and separated from his wife, later divorcing. Law would not see her father again until she was ...html|title=Phyllida Law, mothers and a camel|date=4 April 2014|website=The Sydney Morning Herald}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.badmintonschool.co.uk
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• Susan Shaw
  ...e230551834 |title=FILM NEWS FROM ENGLAND AND AMERICA |newspaper=[[The Sun (Sydney)|The Sun]] |issue=11,818 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=11 Dece ...u/nla.news-article231070556 |title=Margaret Aylwards |newspaper=[[The Sun (Sydney)|The Sun]] |issue=2399 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=3 April 1
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• Phyllis Calvert
  ...argaret Morris (dancer)|Margaret Morris School of Dancing]], and performed from the age of ten, performing with [[Ellen Terry|Ellen Terry]] in ''Crossings' ...=17 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> She received several offers from studios and eventually decided to sign a six-picture deal with [[Paramount
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• Cicely Courtneidge
  | birth_place = [[Sydney|Sydney]], [[New South Wales|New South Wales]], Australia ...e [[West End theatre|West End]] by the age of 16, and was quickly promoted from minor to major roles in his [[Edwardian musical comedies]].
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• Jean Kent
  ...en she appeared as a [[chorus girl]] in the [[Windmill Theatre]] in London from which she was fired by [[Vivian Van Damm]].<ref name="jean"/> ...itle=BRITAIN |newspaper=[[The Sun (Sydney)|The Sun]] |issue=2191 |location=Sydney |date=8 April 1945 |access-date=29 August 2017 |page=3 (Supplement to The S
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• Glynis Johns
  ...ers (1960 film)|The Sundowners]]''. She is one of the last surviving stars from the [[Classical Hollywood cinema|Golden Age of Hollywood]] and class years ...Strangers (1945 film)|Perfect Strangers]]'' (1945) (also titled ''Vacation from Marriage'').
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• Anna Neagle
  ...st a mere £23,000 to produce, it was a hit at the box office, with profits from its Australian release alone being £150,000.<ref name="bfireleases">[https ...as ''The Show Goes On''. The film, with a script featuring a contribution from [[Herman J. Mankiewicz]] (later to co-write ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' with [[Ors
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• Eleanor Bron
  ...n}}</ref> Before her birth, her father Sydney had legally changed his name from Bronstein to Bron, in an effort to enhance his newly founded commercial ent ...t|archive-date=20 July 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> the charity recently formed from the merger of [[Age Concern]] and [[Help the Aged]]. All three actors gave
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• Ben Lyon
  ...ed into a leading man. He was successfully paired with some of the leading actresses of the silent era, including [[w:Pola Negri|Pola Negri]], [[w:Gloria Swanso ...cal films as well as a television series on BBC and independent television from 1954 until 1960. Bebe Daniels had top billing in these series, similar to t
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• Smashing Time
  Brenda ([[Rita Tushingham]]) and Yvonne ([[Lynn Redgrave]]), two girls from the [[North of England]], arrive at [[St Pancras railway station]] in [[Lon The girls get a referral from their new flatmate for hostess jobs at a night club. On their first night t
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• Joyce Grenfell
  ...]]'' (1950) and Police Sergeant Ruby Gates in the [[St Trinian's]] series (from 1954). She was a well-known broadcaster on radio and television. As a write ...e,'' Spring 2010, p. 11</ref> and lived in a cottage on the estate, a mile from the main house, in the early years of her marriage.<ref>Hampton (2002), p.
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• Marti Caine
  ...hildhood Caine's father died from cancer and she suffered [[sexual abuse]] from her paternal grandfather. Caine's mother had a history of alcoholism and dr ..."Smurthwaite"/> Her husband Malcolm Stringer chose her eventual stage name from a gardening book, though Marta Cane ([[tomato]] cane) was misspelled at an
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• Barbara Windsor
  ...iliated by this, Windsor was sent back to London in 1944 along with a note from her dance teacher which read: "Barbara is a born show-off who loves to perf ...as chosen to appear in the chorus of the musical ''[[w:Love From Judy|Love From Judy]]'' in the [[w:West End theatre|West End]] in 1952 which ran for a su
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• Patricia Routledge
  ...ead-born actress Patricia Routledge marks return to home town with reading from classic children's book|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-n ...ch she portrayed every [[First Lady of the United States|U.S. First Lady]] from [[Abigail Adams]] to [[Eleanor Roosevelt]];<ref>{{cite news |last=Blekicki
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• Up Pompeii!
  ...cer)|Michael Mills]]<br />[[David Croft (TV producer)|David Croft]]<br />[[Sydney Lotterby]] ...ritish producer)|Michael Mills]] and [[Tom Sloan (broadcaster)|Tom Sloan]] from BBC Comedy and Light Entertainment visited the ruins of [[Pompeii]]. Since
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