Phyllis Calvert

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Phyllis Calvert (1974)

Phyllis Calvert (born February 18, 1915 in London , England , † October 8, 2002 in London, England; actually Phyllis Bickle ) was a British film actress .

life and work

Phyllis Calvert was active on stage as an actress from a young age and began to take on first film roles from 1939. She became a star practically overnight as the innocently persecuted second heroine in The Man in Gray , in which she was tortured as a victim of the sadistic James Mason . In the end, Mason also whipped Margaret Lockwood to death with a riding crop , while Calvert and Stewart Granger find happiness. All four quickly rose to become the most popular movie names of the last years of the war, and thanks to the success of Fanny By Gaslight from the following year, Calvert even rivaled Lockwood for the highest-grossing female cinema star in England. She had her greatest financial success in 1945 with Madonna of the Seven Moons , who showed Calvert as a woman with a split personality, who was a kind-hearted wife during the day and the amoral hostess in a gang of thugs at night. Stewart Granger was her partner again. Calvert's career declined rapidly towards the end of the decade and she found herself in supporting roles by the early 1950s. In 1958 she played the older sister of Ingrid Bergman in the film adaptation of the stage hit Kind Sir , which was released under the title Indiscreet .

In later years Phyllis Calvert was often seen on television.

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personal data
SURNAME Calvert, Phyllis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bickle, Phyllis (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 2002
Place of death London