julian_craster

I greatly enjoyed Sandra Dorne's performce as Marilyn, screened in the BBC4 'B' movie season. How evocative her acting style was of a bygone era !

Apparently this film was re-titled Roadhouse Girl for the US release, and some UK prints have this title also....

Does anybody know if singer Ray Burns (a successful EMI recording star of the mid-1950s who was featured on the cafe jukebox) was related to the composer of the film's music score Wilfrid Burns ?

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Hi,Julian,
In my press photographer days I met Sandra on a whistle stop tour of cinemas,once at Hounslow,the other at Reading,advertising one of her films,circa 1950.What the movie was escapes me.
I remember at Reading I had her posing with the mayor of the town,down at the local railway station,posing on the footplate of a GWR engine,and goodness knows what else.

She and Patrick dropped me back to London in their Rolls.Chauffeur driven of course.Perhaps layed on by the studio at the time.

Lovely lady,always liked being photographed,unlike Di Dors who nearly had me thrown out of the studio.Mark you,she was pregnant at the time.

cully

I saw that programme about B films on BBC4 a few days ago and was miffed that they described Sandra as a sort of B movie version of Diana. She was a very sexy, glamorous girl in her own right and a fine actress as her extensive CV at IMDB demonstrates.

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Sandra must be turning in her grave..if she knew she was making a B-movies,she would have gone spare..
In a previous forum statement,I read a more gentle title "starring in a co-feature"which was more appropriate at the time.

Anyway,we always associated B movies to come from America.

Im afraid our BBC friends need a little more research into this period.Certain cinemas might classify as putting on a Miss Dorne movie as the lead feature.I know one or two did just that-that's why they had her do a 'guest appearance' at the cinema.Hundreds of fans would turn up.

Home grown talent-and Sandra was a expert at doing just that.