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Shirley Anne began her career in her teens, with small parts in films and game shows. She worked with many well-loved performers including Tommy Cooper, Hughie Green and Bob Monkhouse. At the age of 19 Shirley Anne won the role of Tina, the young beauty queen, in the film The Entertainer playing opposite Sir Laurence Olivier. It was an open audition with at least 500 people, not unlike the reality shows of today. This role changed her life overnight. Several major film roles soon followed including Saturday Night Sunday Morning co starring with Albert Finney; The War Lover with Steve McQueen and Robert Wagner, Man in the Moon with Kenneth Moore; Alfie with Michael Caine, and as Nurse Bancroft in Doctor in Clover with Leslie Phillips. These roles established Shirley Anne Field as household name, and her name could be seen in lights all around Leicester Square above the titles of at least three films. This is a record verified in the Guinness Book of Records. |
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In the 70s she was mostly enjoying being a mother but also working in the theatre. In the 80s she came back to film prominence with My Beautiful Laundrette (best film award) followed by Shag, Getting it Right, and The Rachel Papers. In the 90s she made Here My Song (best film award). This is one of her favourites because she played the grown up beauty queen version of the teenager she played in The Entertainer. Her television work includes Shoestring, Never the Twain, El Cid, Rumble, Anna Lee, Dalziel and Pascoe, Where the Heart Is, and Last of the Summer Wine. Favourite TV roles include Mrs Bolton in Ken Russell’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Peggy Hart in Bramwell, and starring with Ian McShane in Madson playing the role of Elaine. Shirley Anne’s early theatre work began at the Royal Court when she was 17 when she was directed by Lindsay Anderson in Lily White Boys with Albert Finney. Other theatre work has includes Early Morning, Life and Death of Marilyn Monroe, creating the role of Carla in the original production of Kennedy’s Children, Wait Until Dark, Romeo and Juliet, How the Other Half Loves, Shirley Valentine, When We Were Married, Five Blue Haired Ladies Sitting on a Green Park Bench, My Sainted Aunt and The Cemetery Club. Charming, eloquent and entertaining Shirley Anne is also much in demand as a corporate and after-dinner speaker. Topics:- Achievement - Films - Media - Theatre |
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