Page Fifteen
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The Life and Death of
Colonel Blimp( three - times a lady ) The Deborah Kerr Fellowship League - A Foundation for the Performing Arts
( Those Neon Lights and Film Journals ) Est. 1956
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TM Photo from the Hugh Miles-Hutchinsen/Hiller Collection c2003 All Rights Reserved" The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp " 1943
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TM Photo from the Hugh Miles-Hutchinsen/Hiller Collection c2003 All Rights Retained Hereto
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TM Photo from the Hugh Miles-Hutchinsen/Hiller Collection c2003 All Rights Reserved
Wendy Hiller - 90; English Stage, Film Actress Starred in Shaw's 'Pygmalion.'
London -- Dame Wendy Hiller, one of Britain's finest actresses and George Bernard Shaw's chosen leading lady, who had a 50-year career as a stage star and Oscar-winning film actress, died Wednesday, May 14th, 2003 at her home in Beaconsfield, west of London.
A tall, handsome woman with regal bearing and a rich, distinctive voice, Hiller in later life was frequently cast in aristocratic roles that suited her natural hauteur.
She achieved fame early in her career as a girl from the slums in the 1934 Manchester Repertory production of "Love on the Dole." Playing that role in London, she caught the eye of George Bernard Shaw, who cast her as Eliza Doolittle in "Pygmalion" on stage in 1936 and on screen two years later. Hiller joined the Manchester Repertory Theater at age 18, and four years later won the lead in "Love on the Dole." It was a hit that carried her to London and Broadway, and led to Shaw's offer of leading roles in theater festival productions of "Pygmalion" and "Saint Joan" in 1936.
"Love on the Dole" brought happiness as well as fame -- in 1937, she married Ronald Gow, a stage-struck schoolmaster who had adapted the play from Walter Greenwood's novel. Gow died on April 27th, 1993.
Following her appearance in Anthony Asquith's film version of "Pygmalion," Hiller starred in 1941 in Shaw's "MAJOR BARBARA," one of her most memorable film roles. Many years later, Hiller won a best supporting actress Academy award for her work in "SEPARATE TABLES" (1958) and was made a dame -- the equivalent of a knight -- in 1975.
Wendy Hiller was born on August 15th, 1912, and reared in the northern city of Manchester, where her father was in the cotton-spinning business.
"Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people," she said. "They think, 'My God, we saw her acting in the war and there she is still doing it,' and mentally they give you a sort of prize for sheer survival, as long as you turn up every night and remember most of the lines. Not that it ever gets any easier to do."
Dame Wendy Hiller is survived by a son, Anthony: and a daughter, Ann.
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Separate Tables This intimate look at the emotional lives of the borders of a small British guest house is based on a 1954 play by Sir Terence Rattigan.
Like it or not!
Does the setting reflect society at its worst or best!
Are the characters familiar to us?
It is an interesting and thoroughly enjoyable film that stars some major talented cinema entertainers including Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Wendy Hiller and David Niven - who won the 1958 Oscar for his effots.
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