Penelope Dudley-Ward
Penelope Anne Rachel Dudley-Ward (born August 4, 1914 in London , United Kingdom , † January 22, 1982 ibid) was a British film actress .
Live and act
The daughter of William Dudley Ward (1877-1946), a politician, and Freda Dudley Ward , a lady from upscale British society and mistress of the Prince of Wales and later King Edward VIII. , Grew up in the upper class of London, with the Aim to get married at an early stage and in a wealthy manner. Nonetheless, Penelope Dudley-Ward made her debut in front of the camera at the age of 20 and for the next ten years played mostly young ladies from a good family: attractive, well-behaved, wealthy, quick-witted and often with a slight touch of snobbish like her elegant upper-class lady Toppy LeRoy in the Cronin film adaptation of The Citadel .
After the central part of a British woman who falls in love with a Russian inventor ( Laurence Olivier ) in the film The Demi Paradise , which subliminally praises the Soviet-British war alliance , her female lead in the well-kept social comedy English Without Tears and a smaller role in the world war drama The Way Ahead , Penelope Dudley-Ward decided in 1944 to give up filmmaking. In the same year, her marriage to Anthony Pelissier (1912–1988), an actor, screenwriter and director for stage and film, broke up at the end of 1939 . With him she had a daughter, the actress Tracy Reed (1942-2012).
In early 1948, the former film actress married the film director Carol Reed ; the marriage lasted until Reed's death in 1976. Both had a son named Max Reed, born in 1948. Penelope Dudley-Ward died of a brain tumor in early 1982 .
Filmography (complete)
- 1935: Do not leave me ever again (Escape Me Never)
- 1935: Moscow Nights
- 1938: The Citadel (The Citadel)
- 1939: Hell's Cargo
- 1940: Dangerous Comment (short film)
- 1940: The Case of the Frightened Lady
- 1940: Convoy
- 1940: Major Barbara
- 1942: In Which We Serve
- 1943: The Demi-Paradise
- 1944: English Without Tears
- 1944: The Way Ahead
literature
- Ephraim Katz : The Film Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. Revised by Fred Klein and Ronald Dean Nolen. New York 2001, p. 395
Web links
- Penelope Dudley-Ward in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dudley-Ward, Penelope |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dudley-Ward, Penelope Anne Rachel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British film actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1982 |
| Place of death | London , UK |