Best Of British: 104 The English Roses

[Music] [Applause] if there had been a beauty contest for British film actresses there would have been six finalists Miss Phyllis Calin miss Patricia [Applause] Ro this Margaret [Music] Lockwood Miss Virginia mcken [Music] Miss Deborah [Music] KH and Miss Jean Simmons as I will after I've served the eluin [Music] [Applause] [Music] doesn't seem possible 10 years could turn a bud into so lovely a flower during the' 40s there were three female stars who dominated British Cinema phis Kelvin Patricia Rock you're trying to hypnotize me and what else and the most popular of them all should go Margaret Lockwood I might kiss you in the darkness and [Music] then Phyllis Calver became a star through the costume melodramas of the' 40s in them she's most typically seen as a caring Dependable woman rosan must we meet but to this love I feel just for you is as real as the stars that but as she demonstrated with steuart Granger in Madonna of the seven moons she could also play women full of unpredictable passion [Applause] [Music] [Music] what [Music] that never let me go again Nino never let me go again for over three decades she remained a star of screen stage and television her secret was perhaps the vulnerability that lay beneath her glamorous exterior typical English Rose carage i w go as soon as I can't see the ship anymore yes Miss r as in Fanny by Gaslight her characters were loyal loving honest and brave Harry it's PNY I'm with you I'm never going to leave you again it's no wonder that French film critics named Phyllis Calbert one of the Immortals of the cinema har you here you're going to live har we're going to be married we're going to be meded we're going to have a home and children you're going to get well you're going to live it isn't possible nobody could be so [Music] lovely m in Madonna of the seven moons her co-star was Patricia Rock who was rapidly becoming a star in her own right she represented the younger generation the filthy trick Millie played on me she got stuck on a man and ditched as it can so EV and I had to come on alone we stopped the night at the barelli in Florence and spent an hour in the art gallery before coming here oh but of course you don't know Evelyn or wait while I give him a shout he's wrestling with the suitcases in the car o he's coming what's wrong oh my shorts couldn't wear anything else in this weather very modest of you not to arrive in your bathing costume you're such a child Caroline I sometimes wonder if it's fair to marry you till you're old enough to know you Patricia Rock was one of Britain's most glamorous actresses who sparkles in every film in which she appears I Shan you should hear what your tenants say of your R look how good you are to your poor relations I can't imagine any other man putting up with cousin agan and the twins bickering all day long unfortunately she retired in the mid-50s but the magic of film has preserved her appeal for all time Caroline why are you crying I can't there seem so unhappy I don't deserve happiness after what I did to you you couldn't help it A man can help doing what he knows to be wrong but it wasn't wrong for you to marry the woman you loved it would have been if you hadn't to yourself to her to me I don't love Barbara I know now I never did but then why how could M explain a moment of Madness why I could ever believed that I loved her or that I didn't love you I realized it when it was too late I've gone on realizing it I love you cara it's not surprising that every young man was falling in love how do you mean got me to myself of course hi so you have what happens next the most important moment of my life oh I'm glad to been present for that it couldn't very well have been otherwise oh that's lucky isn't it it's more than lucky it's darling will you have the ring before you say yes or say yes before you have the ring what ring this one darling well I think I'd like to say yes and have the ring and have you kiss me all at the same time Caro yes you mustn't go away in contrast to the innocence of Patricia Rock came the wicked lady herself Margaret L say he broke your heart oh if You' have any feeling for him even if it's only gratitude you won't leave him now he'll never live it down all right I'll stay not only that I'll be your Made of Honor that ought to stop all gossip oh thank you Carol look how I'm dressed isn't it ridiculous you can wear this too if you like wear that I wouldn't be buried in it nevertheless he must have great courage and determination and at the height of her career she was receiving over 5,000 fan letters a week 30 million people went to see her in her most famous role the wicked lady never give it [Music] up hold hold your hands above your heads one move and I shoot out into the road all of you and bring your valuables with you get down both of you what's the matter got high women's cramp come on hurry up get into line you hang for this you scoundrel this watch will make sure I'm not late for the execution no you don't Jim get out of my RO Master buny why what you won sir what you done R DB you be put a fell on you like us not her mother's a gypsy wait come on Master Manny get away what are you trying to do duck her in the pond let us see if you can get the devil to hold her up 10 of you to duck one girl get up behind good Heavens you ought to be ashamed however she was an actress of range and versatility in jasse she plays a young and timid gypsy [Music] girl here use this oh thank you I don't know what would have happened if you had it come along why were they chasing you they think my mom mother's a witch oh it's all right she's not really she's just a gypsy oh will she be upset when you tell her about this she's left us she's gone back to her own people what's your name Jesse Woodruff Jesse prisoners at the bar you sever stand convicted of murder but when she's accused of murder the film also enables her to portray convincingly a woman of composure and maturity my Lord I am not guilty but I ask no mercy for myself I only beg you to remember that this girl Belinda Wick should not be held responsible for her actions let the whole fault rest with me because wrongly believing her capable of looking after my husband I left him in her care she could also be romantic love story with Stuart Granger was one of the biggest hits of the [Music] war keep still K you it's gone how can I get you fixed in my mind if you keep on leaping about I didn't ask you to get me fixed in your mind or anywhere else oh yes you did every line of you you're going straight into my box of special memories you won't find it crowded there and I'll often bring you [Applause] out [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Margaret Lockwood was an incredibly hardworking actress dedicated to her career and her daughter it was typical that for love story she spent months learning to play the piano [Music] Don't Be Afraid oh all right my darling I won't be afraid I'll never be afraid [Music] anymore she was a phenomenal beautiful popular and immensely [Music] talented [Music] in the 1950s critics DED Virginia McKinna the original English Rose of British films films like passionate summer with husband Bill [Music] [Applause] Travis I must have some milk for the baby however she was also a serious actress as she proved in a town like Alice which won her British Academy Award in 1956 very sorry orph [Music] for thank you if I been a man I'd like to have been a professional Soldier all those wonderful places you've seen alus Tunis Morocco but her best performance came as Violet Zabo the tough courageous freedom fighter in carve her name with pride music start the music quick bully [Music] I need she is but I gave her here let [Music] come D [Music] out FL and come you put up a good fight mmis cigarette by order of the fer the three British agents Denise BL Lilian rol and Viet saos to she is a demanding actress a perfectionist and all she does she brings to all her roles a mixture of strength warmth and tenderness they are qualities rarely seen in films today in l H I'll never do it I know I won't it's another half mile before I get out of the Town someone's bound to see before then it's very dark not many people about I might I might one of Britain's most respected and well-known actresses is is Dea car she was born a star critics and public adored her every filmmaker wanted to use her the lead in I see a dark stranger was written especially for her she was only 25 did you put tiger out man never mind hurry up Mar your dad will be waiting despite her variety of roles debor car has always been identified with the character of a nun black narcissus was the film that started it her sensitive performance fighting temptation and evil in the Tibetan Monastery one had a claim a contract in Hollywood and paved the way to International [Music] stardom con isn't it A Grand Day [Music] H what's wrong everything what especially uh nothing you wouldn't understand is it money con whatever else is it desmonds will out of it in Michigan I heard from him last week he's been made a partner and just because I'm the eldest son I have to stay here in Island all my life and hang around waiting for this I'll have a little money con when I marry isn't a little money at once it's a fortune then it would be a waste CL don't you sometimes itch to get away no I don't want to go away I want to stay here like this for the rest of my life blessed is [Music] the black narcissus proved a dramatic end to the British side of her [Music] career [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] a probably the most beautiful of British actresses was Jean Simmons she brought the screen alive whenever she appeared in Blue Lagoon she's the Shipwrecked girl on a deserted [Music] island turn around him when I was at school I used to learn poetry I wish I could write poetry because if I could I'd write about you would you Michael you're well the lovliest Poetry ever written nothing could mask her Vitality not even playing an Indian princess in Black [Music] narcissist [Music] I back you will please come with me her appeal lies in her fragile Beauty and her childlike innocence why not it is a terrible thing I have to tell you your brother is very ill he is suffering from what you call the plague the Black Death Terrible Bad sir terrible deep the snow is said the Hedgehog no getting out for the likes of you gentlemen I've just about had enough of you Tommy Baxter evil and Wallace you are entrusted with a class and this is the example you set class is Jean Simmons was further proofed The Very Best of British actresses had the Good Fortune of both talent and look deliver them to me in 1 [Music] hour each of these six stars were without doubt in the eyes of the British public and English Rose [Music] Dorene I know you stand here and look casual put one foot on the step and show your leg as though you're waiting for someone now come on Doran you have to show more than that in the competition tomorrow now but not any young woman could join these select ranks it took something very special to become The Best of British it's no good dear pull your skirt down [Music] [Applause] peace [Music] a

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Published: Sun Mar 17 2024