"[For her role in The Entertainer] I turned up to casting in a room crowded with young women, all looking the same except I was a bit younger. So I let the pony tail down, took the hoop out of my petticoat and read the lines in my best RP, as I'd been taught to do. Director Tony Richardson was dismissing me with a "Thank you dear" but he later told me that as I walked away, he'd noticed the scuff marks on my heels. It must have sparked a thought in his head because he called out, "Can you say the lines in a northern accent?" I was furious, and I yelled [in strong Lancastrian tones]: "I’ve spent five years bloody trying not to.""
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Field's family home in the East End of London was bombed during the blitz. Too young to be evacuated at the age of five, Field was placed in an orphanage run by Methodist Sisters. Long out of contact with her mother, they were only reunited in the 1970s.
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Shirley Anne Field
Shirley Anne Field (born Shirley Broomfield; 27 June 1936 – 10 December 2023) was an English actress who performed on stage, film and television from 1955. She was most prominent during the British New Wave.
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