Continuing our series in which artists suggest movies for lockdown, the actor recalls her first cinematic experiences and recommends Cecil B DeMille, Fred Zinnemannn and Ken Loach
Nanny stopped the pram. Baby Lynn, Corin, my brother, and I were transfixed. Moving black-and-white figures could be seen in a space at the back of a van in our evacuee town in Herefordshire. Soldiers were kissing women. “The war is over,” Nanny said.
In 1946, we missed a bus stop and the first half of Laurence Olivier’s adaptation of Henry V, so the narrative explaining the battle of Agincourt became quite mysterious. In 1950, My brother and I rushed to Cecil B DeMille’s Samson and Delilah in the Haymarket. We ended up seeing this biblical epic six times.
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