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[…] see that I was never going to be an editor because. They're all very nice but they're all ladies and it would be an age before I got promotedBG What programmes were you working on?CY a bit of everything really only I knew when I was passed around from room to cutting room to another I worked on fam[…]
[…]1) . She also starred alongside Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe in the 1957 film The Prince and the Showgirl. She was also involved in television programmes including Sir Francis Drake (1961-1962) where she played Queen Elizabeth I.JK: My name is Jean Kent, which I had to change actually when I […]
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