biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1916–90)
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| biography:
| English actress, born in Karachi, SE Pakistan (formerly India). She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, made her film debut in Lorna Doone (1935), and starred in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes (1938). In the late 1940s she was Britain's most popular leading lady, appearing regularly in theatre productions. Later films include Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) and The Slipper and the Rose (1976). |
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