Torquemada

The Late Edwina Black

Joenoir

Whatever turns you on, Young knobbykins! It is in fact The Late Edwina Black. Well done, Torq!

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.

knobbykins

The colours threw me!
So,who's that on the poster then?

When the king's off his arse nobody sleeps!

Torquemada

Cheers Joe

Here's an easy one

Windthrop

Finlay Currie &

batman

Would that be David Farrar and Geraldine Fitzgerald?

Bats.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

batman

Patricia Roc .... in The Brothers?

Bats.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

Torquemada

It is Finlay Currie Windthrop, but it's not The Brothers bats.

penfold

It's a lovely shot isn't it...Steve C and I had the pleasure of meeting the young lady in London last year....and James too, IIRC.....

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

Steve Crook

She's still well although her handsome US marine husband died last year


And quite a few of us have visited that pier where she's standing with Finlay.
Although that's getting a bit old and decrepid now.

BTW she has a very famous sister. Extra points if you know who that is.

Steve

batman

Edge Of the World or I Know Where I'm Going?.

Gotta be one of those two ..... I Know Where I'm Going.



Bats.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

Torquemada

It is, and please feel free to reveal all.

Joenoir

Batman must be right because that appears to be a copy of the film in the gentleman's hands. I assume the lady is Margot Fitzsimons, sister of Maureen O'Hara.

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.

Steve Crook

That's the one. James arranged for her to pay us a visit. She was planning to visit her family in Ireland anyway so it wasn't too much of a diversion. We took Margot and her husband out to see the sights and for a few meals & long lingering chats and reminiscences about IKWIG.

She's from a family of actors, it's not just her and Maureen. But Margot only ever did one other film, The Captive Heart because she was then swept off her feet by a handsome US Marine and they then spent the rest of their time travelling around the various US bases around the world.

BTW remember that there's only one 'm' in her surname, don't call her "Fitzsimmons"

We took Margot & Harry to see a screening of IKWIG at the NFT. After the applause had died down she stood up, to more applause, and shared a few memories of the making of IKWIG - all happy ones.

Margot remembers a lot of the filming quite clearly. I asked her about the Bedded/Wedded dub (it was Bedded in the version they screened) and she agreed that Bedded was the better and more correct version but she'd been asked to dub it with the Wedded version for any countries with more refined sensibilities. As that was available, that was the version that was often shown on TV.

She had fond memories of the scene waiting for the boat to return where she's standing on the pier having buckets of water thrown at her - at least it wasn't as much as Wendy got in the scenes in the boat.

She'd forgotten that Roger never went to Mull until I reminded her. She did all the scenes with him in the studio of course. But she didn't know the name of the person who very skilfully doubled for Roger on Mull.

She told us about her first scene, where she's driving the cattle up the hill and directs Joan to "The House" (what are all the other buildings where people live? Just hovels?) and tells Joan to look for "The wee gate, up the brae". They did have quite a lot of retakes of that (unusual for The Archers) and Margot says she got to know the cattle quite well

Steve

batman

Bats.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"