Reply With QuoteVirginia McKenna is doing a platform at the National Theatre on Tuesday 28th April at 6pm. It's in the Cottesloe which is quite small so probably worth booking in advance.
I thought this would be of interest to many British film fans ...
Now booking at London's National Theatre https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/t...nceNumber=9244
Virginia McKenna
Virginia McKenna�s autobiography looks back on a career which includes celebrated performances in The Cruel Sea and A Town Like Alice and her role in the conservation and animal welfare movement as founder of The Born Free Foundation.
This Platform is followed by a booksigning
Tickets �3.50 (�2.50 concessions)
Running time 45 mins
- Tuesday 28 April 2009 6:00 pm
Virginia McKenna is doing a platform at the National Theatre on Tuesday 28th April at 6pm. It's in the Cottesloe which is quite small so probably worth booking in advance.
Virginia graced The Loose Women lounge today. What a delightful lady she is, so modest and unassuming. I will never understand why she hasn't been honoured by the Queen for all the years she has devoted to the Born Free charity.
I don't what the loose woman lounge is, but I have liked Virginia McKenna since I saw her in Born Free, one of the first films I saw. I liked her in The Smallest Show on Earth as well. I haven't seen her in many roles. She's a pretty blonde with talent; I assume she must have made many films.
Tim,Originally Posted by TimR
I don't what the loose woman lounge is, but I have liked Virginia McKenna since I saw her in Born Free, one of the first films I saw. I liked her in The Smallest Show on Earth as well. I haven't seen her in many roles. She's a pretty blonde with talent; I assume she must have made many films.
Loose Women is a daytime show on ITV1, our first and main commercial channel. A group of women talk about about various items that interest them and one of the panel is Linda Bellingham, perhaps best known for playing the second Helen Herriot in the BBCs All Creatures great and Small.
Nick
Virginia is a lovely lady.
At the opening of the Violette Szabo museum in June 2000, after they had done all of the opening ceremony, Virginia McKenna & Tania Szabo spent most of the afternoon chatting to people and signing copies of the book and the video of Carve Her Name With Pride that they'd brought along.
But I must say that I disagree with her stance on zoos. She seems to be 100% against them and doesn't acknowledge the good work that some of them have done in breeding programmes and the reintroduction of species to the wild
Steve
She was seen as a significant young star of both screen and Stage by the Fifties. She was supposed to appear in a Rank movie with Patrick McGoohan, called The Gypsy & The Gentleman, but her part was taken by someone else. I think she was reported as taking something of a career break to have children but was persauded to return to make a movie in 1961, with Anthony Asquith and Patrick McGoohan - again - as well as her husband, Bill Travers. They made the movie "Two Living, One Dead". According to reports she was also made a co-producer of this movie.I assume she must have made many films.
That movie never got released in Britain but within a year or two she became a huge international star in the film everyone knows......... about lions, with Matt Monro singing.
Virginia was once a guest of the firm where I used to work (but before I worked for them, blast it) and the staff still remembered how pleasant and unassuming she was.
PS... Sorry, I misremembered earlier and got my old Rank movies mixed up. The one Virginia McKenna was reported at the time as possibly starring in, was "High Tide at Noon". Her possible role was eventually taken by Betta St. John.
Interesting comments. Thanks for the responses. She sounds like a gracious lady.
I also saw her in Waterloo. I am probably one of three or four people on the planet who liked it. She provided calm and attractive relief in one of the most entertainingly self-conscious group of actors I have seen.
A TV Times article about Virginia McKenna from the September 13th - 19th 1975 issue of TV Times.
One of my favourite actresses, does she still act,or is she retired from the entertainment business.
She's still working, when people want her to and when she wants to. But she spends a lot of time working for the Born Free Foundation.
See her credits on the IMDb
I've met her a few times at events commemorating Violette Szabo. A lovely lady
Steve
Amanda Waring, daughter of Derek Waring and Dorothy Tutin, was on Sky News recently (last week I think) talking to Eamonn Holmes about a film she's made with Virginia, in which the actress plays an elderly patient. In the clip that was shown, her character was being spoon-fed. I found it distressing to watch, personally, but know that Amanda is keen to raise the issue of care for older people and wish her all the best with her project. This hasn't been added to IMDb yet:
I read an article she wrote for the Daily Mail a couple of years ago and was shocked and upset to find out how her mother was treated in hospital. As we know, this applies to many others. I'll post something at Dorothy's thread in a moment. Apart from that clip, I last saw Virginia McKenna in a documentary about Christian the Lion.
Earlier Thread - http://filmdope.com/forums/ac...a-mckenna.html
Daily Mirror, February 19th 1958 - A New Star Carves Her Name.
The Violette Szabo Museum in Herefordshire has a little plaque on the door
There wasn't a dry eye in the place when that was unveiledViolette Szabo: Her Name Carved With Pride
Steve
Don't waste too much effort searching for the Loose Women programme though Tim - it's ghastly.
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