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Post by Charles Bronson on Jul 7, 2017 19:40:30 GMT
I saw a really enjoyable interview on Talking Pictures today. The subject was Janet Scott the fifties and sixties film actress who was of course Thora Hird's daughter.
She told some very interesting stories about her career and the stars she had worked with and met.
I don't know how old she is now? probably around eighty. You wouldn't recognize her now, but what a lovely lady she is. I think she was at Elstree for a special showing of 'School For Scoundrels.'
I will have to have a regular look at the weekly schedule for Talking Pictures. I would have recorded the programme if I had known earlier, I missed the first ten minutes.
Charles.
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Post by Steve Austin on Jul 7, 2017 20:20:51 GMT
I've seen her in a couple of films on TPTV; Double Bunk with Sid James, Ian Carmicheal, Liz Fraser & Dennis Price and also The Beauty Jungle with Ian Hendry. I still can't get my head around the fact her mum is Thora Hird
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Post by Charles Bronson on Jul 7, 2017 20:58:31 GMT
I've seen her in a couple of films on TPTV; Double Bunk with Sid James, Ian Carmicheal, Liz Fraser & Dennis Price and also The Beauty Jungle with Ian Hendry. I still can't get my head around the fact her mum is Thora Hird Yes Steve, it's hard to believe Thora was Janet's mother, as Thora was of course a real Northern lady from Morcambe, and Janet was so well spoken in her films Charles.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jul 7, 2017 22:07:05 GMT
Yes, unkind to say it but you wouldn't put money on her being Thora's. Here is Thora aged 44 in The Quatermass Experiment.
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Post by Cartman on Jul 11, 2017 8:29:06 GMT
Another very good film on last night "Payroll" a 1961 black and white crime thriller about a wages van job in Newcastle, Tom Bell, Billie Whitelaw and Michael Craig were in it and there were some fantastic location shots. The approach to breaking into the van was not exactly subtle, they kept crashing two Ford Thames Trader tipper wagons into it until the door locks gave way, then made their getaway in a Jag.
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Post by Cartman on Jul 11, 2017 8:35:17 GMT
Yes Steve, it's hard to believe Thora was Janet's mother, as Thora was of course a real Northern lady from Morcambe, and Janet was so well spoken in her films Charles. Thora was absolutely brilliant in A Kind of Loving
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Post by Charles Bronson on Jul 11, 2017 16:22:28 GMT
Yeah, she was the Mother In Law from hell in that film.
Shotgun wedding in wasn't it?
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jul 15, 2017 12:39:44 GMT
Villain is on tonight at midnight, before it at 10pm is the classic A Taste Of Honey.
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Post by Cartman on Jul 17, 2017 8:57:49 GMT
A Taste of Honey is brilliant, one of my all time favourite films. I love the locations in Manchester and Salford and do remember parts of it being a bit like that. I like the scenes around the Ship Canal, and at one point you can see the then new M63 crossing it on the Barton High Level bridge.
A few bits of it were actually filmed in Stockport too, and they haven't changed that much, the viaduct features, and a park with some terraces higher up, which you get to via some stone steps and they are still exactly the same.
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Post by Steve Austin on Jul 19, 2017 13:12:16 GMT
Another very good film on last night "Payroll" a 1961 black and white crime thriller about a wages van job in Newcastle, Tom Bell, Billie Whitelaw and Michael Craig were in it and there were some fantastic location shots. The approach to breaking into the van was not exactly subtle, they kept crashing two Ford Thames Trader tipper wagons into it until the door locks gave way, then made their getaway in a Jag.
I started watching this last night but was disappointed that they had to blur the bit with Billie Whitelaw washing the girl in the bath. What a sad comment on today's society.
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