Shirley Anne Field
Date of Birth:
27 June 1938, Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
Birth Name:
Shirley Broomfield
Height:
5' 4" (1.63 m)
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Shirley Anne and her brother (later a U.S. homicide victim) were brought up in the Edgworth Children's Home and Orphanage after their mother was unable to care for them. She began her career modeling for 50s British pin up magazines such as Reveille and Titbits before entering films in 1955 as an extra and bit player, mostly used as glamorous set dressing. Her first sizable part was in Michael Powell's classic Peeping Tom (1960) as a temperamental film star. The same year, she also appeared in Wild for Kicks (1959) alongside Adam Faith Peter McEnery and Oliver Reed, which was a film noted for containing the first score by composer John Barry. She was then chosen by Laurence Olivier and director Tony Richardson for a featured role in The Entertainer (1960) which really made her name, followed by another British New Wave entry, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) and Joseph Losey's cult classic These Are the Damned (1963). A trip to Hollywood for Kings of the Sun (1963) proved disappointing although she was considered for the role eventually played by Diane Baker in The Prize (1963). Apart from Alfie (1966), her subsequent British films of this period were unworthy of her.
In the seventies, she acted mostly in the theatre including an acclaimed performance in the South African production of "Wait Until Dark". Shirley Anne returned to films in the highly successful My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and has subsequently had a prolific career in both films (Hear My Song (1991)) and television (Ken Russell's "Lady Chatterley" (1993)).
She worked in America during the early nineties including the feature Shag (1989) and a stint on the popular daytime soap "Santa Barbara" (1984). At the time of writing (2003), she is about to embark on the second half of a Nationwide UK tour in the American comedy, "The Cemetery Club". She has published a heart warming autobiography, "A Time for Love".
Spouse:
Charles Patrick Colum Henry Crichton-Stuart (7 July 1967 - ?) (divorced) 1 child
? (? - ?) (divorced) 1 child
The Power of Three Three to Tango 
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Michelle, Olivia and Lizzie were best friends in university. A team. But that was 30 years ago. One failed marriage, an empty nest and stalled careers-is there really life after 50? Each woman dreads an upcoming reunion and thinks the others are richer, happier and more successful. When the truth is revealed, the women reunite to become the women they once were and could be again.
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Mark Lewis, works as a focus puller in a British film studio. On his off hours, he supplies a local porno shop with cheesecake photos and also dabbles in filmmaking. A lonely, unfriendly, sexually repressed fellow, Mark is obsessed with the effects of fear and how they are registered on the face and behavior of the frightened. This obsession dates from the time when, as a child, he served as the subject of some cold-blooded experiments in the psychology of terror conducted by his own scientist father. As a grown man, Mark becomes a compulsive murderer who kills women and records their contorted features and dying gasps on film. His ongoing project is a documentary on fear. With 16mm camera in hand, he accompanies a prostitute to her room and stabs her with a blade concealed in his tripod, all the while photographing her contorted face in the throes of terror and death. Alone in his room, he surrounds himself with the sights and sounds of terror: taped screams, black-and-white "home movies" of convulsed faces. At his house, he meets Helen Stephens, a young woman who lives with her blind mother in a downstairs flat. She visits his flat, where he shows her black-and-white films that were taken of him when he was a child. She is horrified to see that his father used him as a guinea pig in various experiments, taking movies of his reactions of fear.
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