"There is more to my life than sex, money, fame and a few horrific people I have met once or twice. Certainly I've been in love, been loved and had some highly comic adventures. So has your typist and the girl who does your wife's hair and so have most of the sensible swinging girls of today I am trying to represent."
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The quote is from a letter published in the Sunday Mirror, 22 December 1963, p. 27. The Guardian obituary of Field mistakenly claims it was published in the Daily Mirror.
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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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