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Chili Bouchier Chili Bouchier (1909 -1999) was a British film actress, after working as a model for Harrods, she won […]

Chili BouchierChili Bouchier (1909-1999) was a British film actress, after working as a model for Harrods, she won a Daily Mail competition to become a film star. Her films included Shooting Stars (1927), The Return of Carole Deane (1938) and Dead Lucky (1960). I: 29th of May 1996 we are at BECT[…]

INTERVIEW WITH VIRGINIA McKENNA (ACTRESS)The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project.Interviewer: Joyce RobinsonRecorded on the 9th January 2002. TAPE ONE SIDE ONEJR: Virginia McKenna, when and where were you born?VM: Well, I was born in London on the 7th of June, 193[…]

[…]y mother at the age of 23, or 24. Playing in this film, and I was very impressed. I thought, My goodness, you weren't just a beauty, you were also an actress. And afterwards, the manager insisted that I got up and talk to the audience for five minutes of absolutely my mother. So that's the the, the […]

Joan Kemp-Welch ( actress, stage director, television director) 23/9/1906-07 - 5/7/99 by admin — last modified Aug 10, 2008 10:23 […]

[…]fore we pursue that, let me just take you back a little while. Now, can we clarify when it crystallised in your mind that you wanted to act, to be an actress, to go into the theatre?Joan Kemp-Welch: I can never remember a time when I didn't.Roy Fowler: It was always there?Joan Kemp-Welch:&[…]

Jean Anderson Jean Anderson (1907 -2001) was an English actress. Notable roles include Mother in the BBC Railway Children adaptations […]

[…] and, in those days, she was a very well -paid actress. RF: Would you have run the risk of being […]

[…]Right.I was brought up as, as a European you see. My father never wanted me to be a Russian exile or refugee I think. But it was because that Russian actress, Anna Sten, a friend of my mother’s, arrived in Paris on her way to, to London. She saw me starving. And, I was at university then, I think, a[…]

[…] or refugee I think. But it was because that Russian actress, Anna Sten, a friend of my mother’s, arrived in […]