... Now good friends AUSTIN STEELE, actor and scriptwriter with Tyne-Tees Television, was married at Southampton last week to actress Sarah Travis. The couple met when Miss Travis played in Friends and Neighbours a comedy written by Steele. ...

... and Friends. Written by William Marchant from a story by Lenore Coffee, it concerned the relationship between two Italian actresses, one of whom provided the voice for the other's film performances. But it fell very heavriy between all possible stools ...

... we would have lost her to Holly wood long before now. With all thy faults telly, I love thee still. You have given young actresses far more scope than the cinema has done for a couple of decades. A performance of controlled power from Ronald Radd. Marjorie ...

... e. Harriet tKenee /vsnersonj is a spinster who runs a jewellery shop and looks after an im perious and over-whelming. ex-actress mother. She is shy and inexperienced and desper ately lonely. Enter the villain, Charles (Nigel Green), with a twirl of his ...

... ormers to act against. The two women were not as leeply understood by the writer is were the men, and conse- luently the actresses had to :ontribute more from within hemselves. To this extent, herefore. they deserve extra iraise. Clare Kelly, as the rustrated ...

... house and out into the street. Hattie Jacques is an old hand at children's story telling and she has a quality, rare in an actress, of appearing to be absolutely natural and unaffected with children. When she became a kind of lovable witch in Pos sible ...

... with great deli cacy. It is so easy to fail one false note in the direction or one unimaginative performance by an actor or actress and the w+iole scheme is punctured like a balloon, but in this case both cast and direction sustained the magic. Strange how ...

... book-keeper Broom but the slarring role of Grace Maxwell didn't give Miss Diana Dors a real chance to test her ability as an actress. I should say Mr. Brandel's idea was better than his script. Brian de Salvo CAST Madame de Krepeny Beatrix Carter Miw Paul ...

... pair. In a recent BBC play Caroline Mortimer showed what a gift for comedy she has. In this she showed what a good dramatic actress she is too. Of great worth to any play is Harry Andrews and in the part of Sam Ryan he was particularly fine. His best moments ...

... enter taining team. _ Having been born out of Coronation Street, it is not sur prising the series is well cast. The three actresses Betty Driver, Joy Slewart and Judith Funie, contributed their full share to the gaiety of the story. I particularly enjoyed ...

... most others have failed so dismally? I would put my finger on the choice of stars. Hylda Baker is a brilliantly funny comedy actress, her appeal is as basic as the life and soul of the Women's Institute. But she has polished her talent to a degree of pro ...

... with a considerable gift for comedy. And Amanda Barrie has lived up to predictions that she would be a great little comedy actress. Her fruity voice tinged ever so faintly with echoes of the working class, matched exactly the obvious and earthy comedy she ...