Phyllis Calvert
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| Name: | Phyllis Calvert | |
| Status | Deceased | |
| Age: | 87 (February 18, 1915 -October 8, 2002) | |
| IMDB: | IMDb | |
| TMDB: | TMDB | |
| Smoking Status: | Unknown | |
| Type of Celebrity: | Actor | |
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| TMDB Popularity | 12.663 | |
| Biography (TMDB): | Phyllis Calvert (18 February 1915 – 8 October 2002) was an English film, stage and television actress. Born Phyllis Hannah Bickle in Chelsea, she trained at the Margaret Morris School of Dancing and performed from the age of ten, gaining her first film role at the age of 12, in The Arcadians (1927), also known as The Land of Heart's Desire. Calvert performed in repertory theatre and in several films, before making her London stage debut in A Woman's Privilege in 1939. During the following decade, she starred in many romances, including Fanny by Gaslight, with James Mason and Stewart Granger, and My Own True Love, becoming one of Britain's highest paid stars. However, three Hollywood studios failed to pay her what she asked. She first found success in the film adaptation of H. G. Wells' Kipps (1941), but it was The Man in Grey (1943) that confirmed her status. She acted in over 40 films, her later films include Oh! What a Lovely War and The Walking Stick. Calvert had already appeared on television, playing Mrs. March in the 1958 serials Little Women and Good Wives (both adapted from Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women), as well as individual episodes of several other programmes, when, in 1970, she landed the part of an agony aunt with problems of her own in Kate. She made TV appearances in programmes such as Crown Court, Ladykillers, Tales of the Unexpected, Boon, After Henry and The Line Grove Story. She was married to the actor and antiquarian bookseller Peter Murray Hill, with whom she had two children, Ann Auriol (born 1943) and Piers Auriol (born 1954). She died in London in 2002, from natural causes, aged 87. |
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Movies
2,000 Women
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Kent snaffles a cigarette from a German officer's desk, then smokes it through a long holder. Houston dangles and drags on dog-ends in several scenes, performing a natural nasal exhale and removing a flake of tobacco from her tongue. De Maurin asks a chauffeur for a light. Pride of place goes to Calvert who accepts a dog-end offered to her, drags, puffs out a thick cloud of smoke, then hooks the rest down with her tongue with obvious relish. A second similar drag follows. Real, rather than sexy, smoking. |
Broken Journey
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[Calvert] Borrows a cigarette. Male lights it up for her. Puffs away. |
It's Never Too Late
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Two inhaled non-filter lightings. There is a lengthy, though faint, talk- exhale in the first. She gasps down the second with wide-open mouth and exhales almost immediately. |
Madonna Of The Seven Moons
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Five scenes with three lightings for Calvert. I loved the way she twice dangles her cigarette as she waits to be given a light, which she accepts with an open-mouth inhale. Roc holds and stubs out in one scene. |
The Net
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Stubs her cigarette out in one scene, holds in another |
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She plays a former smoker. In a scene, after she's made love,she holds one, but we never get to see a drag or exhale. Sorry folks, this was a close call, but it doesn't count. |
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