I'd say how sad, but she made it into her 90s at least!
It's a perfectly reasonable age to die! I'm just sorry she's gone out of the world.
I recognised the name instantly, so I knew she'd been in something I've seen not too long ago, but it was Meet Mr Lucifer and she was kind of annoying in that, so I can't say much about her. But I suspect that was more the role and the film, rather than her.
I didn't think I'd seen her in anything, but she seems to have co-starred in Escape (1948), which I saw in 2011 at the HFA, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Rex Harrison as escaped convict Matt Denant, who is having a moral dilemma. It was refreshing to see him in a role where he's not a confident charmer, but it looks as though my primary takeaway from the movie was William Hartnell as the policeman on his trail. A few years older than in The Dark Tower (1943), he retains much of the same clean-lined, whimsical look, so that you cannot tell at first whether his Inspector Harris will turn out to be a good cop or a fool. His professional presentation is the plodding public servant who's not paid to think. He has a mild, affable way of talking, but shows no stronger personal reaction than the occasional peak of his eyebrows until the telephone conversation where one of Denant's friends betrays him for the reward money; Harris hangs up on him nicely and turns to go, remarking meditatively to no one in particular that he wishes sometimes he'd gone into another field, "like poetry." And then, suddenly, savagely, "Or dentistry." And that got my attention. Everything else I remember as the shape of the plot.
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It's a perfectly reasonable age to die! I'm just sorry she's gone out of the world.
I recognised the name instantly, so I knew she'd been in something I've seen not too long ago, but it was Meet Mr Lucifer and she was kind of annoying in that, so I can't say much about her. But I suspect that was more the role and the film, rather than her.
I didn't think I'd seen her in anything, but she seems to have co-starred in Escape (1948), which I saw in 2011 at the HFA, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Rex Harrison as escaped convict Matt Denant, who is having a moral dilemma. It was refreshing to see him in a role where he's not a confident charmer, but it looks as though my primary takeaway from the movie was William Hartnell as the policeman on his trail. A few years older than in The Dark Tower (1943), he retains much of the same clean-lined, whimsical look, so that you cannot tell at first whether his Inspector Harris will turn out to be a good cop or a fool. His professional presentation is the plodding public servant who's not paid to think. He has a mild, affable way of talking, but shows no stronger personal reaction than the occasional peak of his eyebrows until the telephone conversation where one of Denant's friends betrays him for the reward money; Harris hangs up on him nicely and turns to go, remarking meditatively to no one in particular that he wishes sometimes he'd gone into another field, "like poetry." And then, suddenly, savagely, "Or dentistry." And that got my attention. Everything else I remember as the shape of the plot.