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Phyllis Calvert

April 26, 2023

Phyllis Hannah Murray-Hill (née Bickle; 18 February 1915 – 8 October 2002), known professionally as Phyllis Calvert, was an English film, stage and television actress.[2] She was one of the leading stars of the Gainsborough melodramas of the 1940s such as The Man in Grey (1943) and was one of the most popular movie stars in Britain in the 1940s.[3] She continued her acting career for another 50 years.[4]

Phyllis Calvert
Calvert photographed by Allan Warren in 1974
Born
Phyllis Hannah Bickle

(1915-02-18)18 February 1915
Chelsea, London, England
Died8 October 2002(2002-10-08) (aged 87)
Cheam, London, England
Years active1927–2000
Spouse
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(m. 1941; died 1957)​
Children2[1]

In the words of an article by Michael Brooke for the BFI's Screenonline website: "Most of the time she drew what looked like the short straw, playing the 'good girl' in films that revelled in the exploits of her wicked opposite number, and it says much for her talent and charisma that she was able to hold attention in what must have seemed thankless parts – she herself acknowledged that 'I do think it is much more difficult to establish a really charming, nice person than a wicked one – and make it real'."[3]

Biography

Born in Chelsea, London, she trained at the Margaret Morris School of Dancing, and performed from the age of ten, performing with Ellen Terry in Crossings.[5] She gained her first film role at the age of 12, in The Arcadians (1927), also known as The Land of Heart's Desire.[6]

Calvert performed in repertory theatre in Malvern and Coventry. She made her London stage debut in A Woman's Privilege in 1939.[7] Her early films include Two Days to Live (1939).[8]

Gainsborough Pictures

Calvert was spotted in a play Punch without Judy, and was signed to a contract by Gainsborough Pictures which gave her the lead in They Came by Night (1940), opposite Will Fyffe.[9] She was George Formby's love interest in Let George Do It! (1940) and had a support part in Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940), starring Arthur Askey.[10][11]

Calvert was in a war movie, Neutral Port (1940), then had a good role as Michael Redgrave's love interest in Kipps (1941), directed by Carol Reed.[12][13] After a detective film Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It (1941) she had the co-lead in Uncensored (1942), a war movie with Eric Portman.[14][15] Reed used her again in The Young Mr. Pitt (1942), playing Eleanor Eden.[16]

In 1942, she had the lead role as Patricia Graham in the West End production of Terence Rattigan's play Flare Path.[7][5]

Stardom

Calvert was by now well established in British films. She did not become a star, however, until given one of the four leading roles in the Gainsborough melodrama The Man in Grey (1943).[17] The movie was a huge success, making her and her three co-stars – Stewart Granger, James Mason and Margaret Lockwood – genuine box office stars in Britain.[18]

Calvert followed it with Fanny by Gaslight (1944), co-starring Granger and Mason, which was another big hit.[19] Also popular was Two Thousand Women (1944), made by Launder and Gilliat, about British women interned in occupied France.[20] It co-starred Patricia Roc, who appeared with Calvert and Granger in Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945), another Gainsborough melodrama, and another hit.[19] Calvert's successful run at the box office continued when she and Mason were reunited in They Were Sisters (1945), a more contemporary-set Gainsborough melodrama.[21] Exhibitors voted her the fifth-most popular star of 1945 in Britain.[22]

She was one of Stewart Granger's loves in The Magic Bow (1946) and had the female lead in a drama about colonialism in Africa Men of Two Worlds (1946), made a few years before being released.[23] It was a success, though not profitable because of its high cost.[24] The Root of All Evil (1947) was one of the last of the Gainsborough melodramas.[25] She was voted the sixth most popular British star at the box office in 1946.[26]

Hollywood

Calvert's success had been noticed in the US, although her films had not been as popular there. Universal-International signed her to star in Time Out of Mind (1947), which was a box office disappointment.[27][28][29] She received several offers from studios and eventually decided to sign a six-picture deal with Paramount.[30][31]

She returned to Britain to make Broken Journey (1948) playing a role written especially for her, but the film failed at the box-office.[32]

Calvert went to Hollywood to make two films, both for Paramount: My Own True Love (1949), with Melvyn Douglas, and Appointment with Danger (1951 but made two years earlier) with Alan Ladd, in which she played a nun.[33][17] She did Peter Pan on stage in Britain.[34]

Producer

Back in Britain she made two films with director Ladislao Vajda, neither particularly successful: Golden Madonna (1950), shot in Italy, and The Woman with No Name (1950).[4] She invested her own money in the latter.[35] She wanted to produce other films: Eastward Ho, about an Englishwoman who romances a cowboy, and Equilibrium, about a trapeze artist, as well as star in a third film for Paramount but none of these were made.[36][37]

Calvert was in a thriller Mr. Denning Drives North (1951) with John Mills and a BBC TV production The Holly and the Ivy (1951).[38][39] She had her first big hit in a while, Mandy (1952).[3]

Calvert was a wife in The Net (1953), then was off screen for a while.[4] She acted on stage in It's Never Too Late (1956), then appeared in the film version.[40] She followed it with Child in the House (1956).[41]

On TV she was in Strindberg's The Father for ITV's Television Playhouse, and played the lead in Tatiana, the Czar's Daughter.[42][4] She also played Mrs March in a six-part BBC adaptation of Little Women.[43]

Calvert had a support part in the Hollywood-financed Indiscreet (1958), then played a concerned mother in The Young and the Guilty (1958) and a wacky spinster in A Lady Mislaid (1959).[44][4][45] On TV she was in "The Break" for Armchair Theatre (1959) and played Katherine O'Shea in Parnell for Play of the Week (1959), then reprised her role as Mrs March for the BBC in Good Wives (1959).[4][46] She was Constance Wilde in Oscar Wilde (1960) with Robert Morley and A Righteous Woman on Play of the Week (1962).[4]

The only time people recall Calvert risking loss of sympathy for an apparent lapse of taste, grace or charm was during her stage career at the Lyric in 1963, and at the Duke of York's in 1964. In the first, as the wife in Ronald Duncan's Ménage à Trois, she condoned his misconduct - as long as it took place off the premises, herself departing as a lesbian with his mistress as the curtain fell. Then, as the cold, insensitive stepmother in James Saunders's A Scent Of Flowers, she left no trace of "the rose that sings". Phyllis Calvert

Later career

She acted in over 40 films, her later films including The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965), Twisted Nerve (1968), Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) and The Walking Stick (1970).[4]

From 1970 to 1972, she starred in her own TV series, Kate, playing the part of an agony aunt with problems of her own.[citation needed]

She made TV appearances in programmes such as Crown Court, Ladykillers, Tales of the Unexpected, Boon, After Henry, Victoria Wood and Limelight: The Film Years – The Lime Grove Story.[47][48] She also played D.I. Barnaby's Aunt Alice (Alice Bly) in a Midsomer Murders episode "Blue Herrings" in 2000.[49][50] She was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1972 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.[citation needed]

Personal life

She was married to the actor and antiquarian bookseller Peter Murray-Hill[5] until his sudden death in 1957.[51] The couple had two children, Ann Murray-Hill (born 1943) and Piers Murray-Hill (born 1954). Calvert never remarried. She died in her sleep in London in 2002 from natural causes,[51] aged 87.[2]

Partial filmography

Box office ranking

For a number of years, British film exhibitors voted her among the top ten British stars at the box office via an annual poll in the Motion Picture Herald.

References

  1. ^ Lewis, Paul (12 October 2002). "Phyllis Calvert, 87, Virtuous Heroine of Wartime Melodramas". The New York Times.
  2. ^ a b III, Harris M. Lentz (9 April 2003). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2002: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture. McFarland. ISBN 9780786452071 – via Google Books.
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  6. ^ "PHYLLIS CALVERT Britain's Wartime Star". The Australasian. Vol. CLX, no. 5, 065. Victoria, Australia. 26 January 1946. p. 13. Retrieved 29 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
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  8. ^ "Phyllis Calvert Featured in Picture". Glen Innes Examiner. New South Wales, Australia. 17 March 1948. p. 4. Retrieved 29 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ "Phyllis Calvert". Morwell Advertiser. No. 2850. Victoria, Australia. 3 July 1941. p. 4 (morning.). Retrieved 29 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
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  11. ^ "Charley's (Big-hearted) Aunt (1940)". BFI. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  12. ^ "Neutral Port (1941) – Marcel Varnel – Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie.
  13. ^ "Kipps (1941) – Carol Reed – Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie.
  14. ^ "Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941)". BFI. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
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  16. ^ "The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)". BFI. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
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  21. ^ "BFI Screenonline: They Were Sisters (1945)". www.screenonline.org.uk.
  22. ^ "CROSBY and HOPE try their luck in Alaska". The Mercury. Vol. CLXIII, no. 23, 475. Tasmania, Australia. 2 March 1946. p. 3 (The Mercury Magazine). Retrieved 9 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
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  31. ^ GRADY JOHNSON. (7 September 1947). "PHYLLIS CALVERT – RED-HEAD WITHOUT TEMPER". The New York Times. p. X3.
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  35. ^ "Phyllis Calvert talks of home and career". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 17, no. 50. 20 May 1950. p. 52. Retrieved 29 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
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  37. ^ Scheuer, Philip K. (30 August 1949). "Phyllis Calvert Maps International Features; Italian Woos Medea". Los Angeles Times. p. A7.
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  39. ^ "The Holly and the Ivy (1951)". BFI. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
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  44. ^ "Indiscreet (1958) – Stanley Donen – Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie.
  45. ^ "A Lady Mislaid – review – cast and crew, movie star rating and where to watch film on TV and online". Radio Times.
  46. ^ "Parnell". 10 February 1959 – via www.imdb.com.
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  48. ^ "Limelight - The Film Years (1991)". BFI. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  49. ^ "Blue Herring (2000)". BFI. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  50. ^ "Midsomer Murders: Blue Herrings (2000) – Peter Smith – Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie.
  51. ^ a b "BBC NEWS – Entertainment – Actress Phyllis Calvert dies". bbc.co.uk. 9 October 2002.
  52. ^ "CROSBY and HOPE try their luck in Alaska". The Mercury. Hobart, Tasmania. 2 March 1946. p. 3 Supplement: The Mercury Magazine. Retrieved 24 April 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
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  • "Phyllis Calvert". The Times. 9 October 2002. Retrieved 28 October 2009.
  • Lewis, Paul (12 October 2002). "Phyllis Calvert, 87, Virtuous Heroine of Wartime Melodramas". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 October 2009.
  • "Actress Phyllis Calvert dies". BBC News. 9 October 2002. Retrieved 28 October 2009.
  • "Phyllis Calvert". The Telegraph. 9 October 2002. Retrieved 28 October 2009.
  • "Modest star a symbol of womanhood". The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 October 2002. Retrieved 28 October 2009.

External links

  Media related to Phyllis Calvert at Wikimedia Commons

  • Phyllis Calvert biography and filmography at the BFI's Screenonline
  • Phyllis Calvert at IMDb
  • Photographs and literature

April 26, 2023
phyllis, calvert, phyllis, hannah, murray, hill, née, bickle, february, 1915, october, 2002, known, professionally, english, film, stage, television, actress, leading, stars, gainsborough, melodramas, 1940s, such, grey, 1943, most, popular, movie, stars, brita. Phyllis Hannah Murray Hill nee Bickle 18 February 1915 8 October 2002 known professionally as Phyllis Calvert was an English film stage and television actress 2 She was one of the leading stars of the Gainsborough melodramas of the 1940s such as The Man in Grey 1943 and was one of the most popular movie stars in Britain in the 1940s 3 She continued her acting career for another 50 years 4 Phyllis CalvertCalvert photographed by Allan Warren in 1974BornPhyllis Hannah Bickle 1915 02 18 18 February 1915Chelsea London EnglandDied8 October 2002 2002 10 08 aged 87 Cheam London EnglandYears active1927 2000SpousePeter Murray Hill m 1941 died 1957 wbr Children2 1 In the words of an article by Michael Brooke for the BFI s Screenonline website Most of the time she drew what looked like the short straw playing the good girl in films that revelled in the exploits of her wicked opposite number and it says much for her talent and charisma that she was able to hold attention in what must have seemed thankless parts she herself acknowledged that I do think it is much more difficult to establish a really charming nice person than a wicked one and make it real 3 Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Gainsborough Pictures 1 2 Stardom 1 3 Hollywood 1 4 Producer 1 5 Later career 2 Personal life 3 Partial filmography 4 Box office ranking 5 References 6 External linksBiography EditBorn in Chelsea London she trained at the Margaret Morris School of Dancing and performed from the age of ten performing with Ellen Terry in Crossings 5 She gained her first film role at the age of 12 in The Arcadians 1927 also known as The Land of Heart s Desire 6 Calvert performed in repertory theatre in Malvern and Coventry She made her London stage debut in A Woman s Privilege in 1939 7 Her early films include Two Days to Live 1939 8 Gainsborough Pictures Edit Calvert was spotted in a play Punch without Judy and was signed to a contract by Gainsborough Pictures which gave her the lead in They Came by Night 1940 opposite Will Fyffe 9 She was George Formby s love interest in Let George Do It 1940 and had a support part in Charley s Big Hearted Aunt 1940 starring Arthur Askey 10 11 Calvert was in a war movie Neutral Port 1940 then had a good role as Michael Redgrave s love interest in Kipps 1941 directed by Carol Reed 12 13 After a detective film Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It 1941 she had the co lead in Uncensored 1942 a war movie with Eric Portman 14 15 Reed used her again in The Young Mr Pitt 1942 playing Eleanor Eden 16 In 1942 she had the lead role as Patricia Graham in the West End production of Terence Rattigan s play Flare Path 7 5 Stardom Edit Calvert was by now well established in British films She did not become a star however until given one of the four leading roles in the Gainsborough melodrama The Man in Grey 1943 17 The movie was a huge success making her and her three co stars Stewart Granger James Mason and Margaret Lockwood genuine box office stars in Britain 18 Calvert followed it with Fanny by Gaslight 1944 co starring Granger and Mason which was another big hit 19 Also popular was Two Thousand Women 1944 made by Launder and Gilliat about British women interned in occupied France 20 It co starred Patricia Roc who appeared with Calvert and Granger in Madonna of the Seven Moons 1945 another Gainsborough melodrama and another hit 19 Calvert s successful run at the box office continued when she and Mason were reunited in They Were Sisters 1945 a more contemporary set Gainsborough melodrama 21 Exhibitors voted her the fifth most popular star of 1945 in Britain 22 She was one of Stewart Granger s loves in The Magic Bow 1946 and had the female lead in a drama about colonialism in Africa Men of Two Worlds 1946 made a few years before being released 23 It was a success though not profitable because of its high cost 24 The Root of All Evil 1947 was one of the last of the Gainsborough melodramas 25 She was voted the sixth most popular British star at the box office in 1946 26 Hollywood Edit Calvert s success had been noticed in the US although her films had not been as popular there Universal International signed her to star in Time Out of Mind 1947 which was a box office disappointment 27 28 29 She received several offers from studios and eventually decided to sign a six picture deal with Paramount 30 31 She returned to Britain to make Broken Journey 1948 playing a role written especially for her but the film failed at the box office 32 Calvert went to Hollywood to make two films both for Paramount My Own True Love 1949 with Melvyn Douglas and Appointment with Danger 1951 but made two years earlier with Alan Ladd in which she played a nun 33 17 She did Peter Pan on stage in Britain 34 Producer Edit Back in Britain she made two films with director Ladislao Vajda neither particularly successful Golden Madonna 1950 shot in Italy and The Woman with No Name 1950 4 She invested her own money in the latter 35 She wanted to produce other films Eastward Ho about an Englishwoman who romances a cowboy and Equilibrium about a trapeze artist as well as star in a third film for Paramount but none of these were made 36 37 Calvert was in a thriller Mr Denning Drives North 1951 with John Mills and a BBC TV production The Holly and the Ivy 1951 38 39 She had her first big hit in a while Mandy 1952 3 Calvert was a wife in The Net 1953 then was off screen for a while 4 She acted on stage in It s Never Too Late 1956 then appeared in the film version 40 She followed it with Child in the House 1956 41 On TV she was in Strindberg s The Father for ITV s Television Playhouse and played the lead in Tatiana the Czar s Daughter 42 4 She also played Mrs March in a six part BBC adaptation of Little Women 43 Calvert had a support part in the Hollywood financed Indiscreet 1958 then played a concerned mother in The Young and the Guilty 1958 and a wacky spinster in A Lady Mislaid 1959 44 4 45 On TV she was in The Break for Armchair Theatre 1959 and played Katherine O Shea in Parnell for Play of the Week 1959 then reprised her role as Mrs March for the BBC in Good Wives 1959 4 46 She was Constance Wilde in Oscar Wilde 1960 with Robert Morley and A Righteous Woman on Play of the Week 1962 4 The only time people recall Calvert risking loss of sympathy for an apparent lapse of taste grace or charm was during her stage career at the Lyric in 1963 and at the Duke of York s in 1964 In the first as the wife in Ronald Duncan s Menage a Trois she condoned his misconduct as long as it took place off the premises herself departing as a lesbian with his mistress as the curtain fell Then as the cold insensitive stepmother in James Saunders s A Scent Of Flowers she left no trace of the rose that sings Phyllis Calvert Later career Edit She acted in over 40 films her later films including The Battle of the Villa Fiorita 1965 Twisted Nerve 1968 Oh What a Lovely War 1969 and The Walking Stick 1970 4 From 1970 to 1972 she starred in her own TV series Kate playing the part of an agony aunt with problems of her own citation needed She made TV appearances in programmes such as Crown Court Ladykillers Tales of the Unexpected Boon After Henry Victoria Wood and Limelight The Film Years The Lime Grove Story 47 48 She also played D I Barnaby s Aunt Alice Alice Bly in a Midsomer Murders episode Blue Herrings in 2000 49 50 She was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1972 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews citation needed Personal life EditShe was married to the actor and antiquarian bookseller Peter Murray Hill 5 until his sudden death in 1957 51 The couple had two children Ann Murray Hill born 1943 and Piers Murray Hill born 1954 Calvert never remarried She died in her sleep in London in 2002 from natural causes 51 aged 87 2 Partial filmography EditThe Arcadians 1927 Young Girl uncredited Discord 1933 uncredited Anne One Hundred 1933 uncredited School for Stars 1935 uncredited They Came by Night 1940 Sally Let George Do It 1940 Mary Wilson Charley s Big Hearted Aunt 1940 Betty Forsythe Neutral Port 1940 Helen Carter Kipps 1941 Ann Pornick as a woman Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It 1941 Mrs Wilkinson Uncensored 1942 Julie Lanvin The Young Mr Pitt 1942 Eleanor Eden The Man in Grey 1943 Clarissa Marr Fanny by Gaslight 1944 Fanny Two Thousand Women 1944 Freda Thompson Madonna of the Seven Moons 1945 Maddalena They Were Sisters 1945 Lucy Moore The Magic Bow 1946 Jeanne de Vermond Men of Two Worlds 1946 Dr Caroline Munro The Root of All Evil 1947 Jeckie Farnish Time Out of Mind 1947 Kate Fernald Broken Journey 1948 Mary Johnstone My Own True Love 1949 Joan Clews Golden Madonna 1949 Patricia Chandler The Woman with No Name 1950 Yvonne Winter Appointment with Danger 1951 Sister Augustine Mr Denning Drives North 1951 Kay Denning Mandy 1952 Christine The Net 1953 Lydia Heathley It s Never Too Late 1956 Laura Hammond Child in the House 1956 Evelyn Acheson Indiscreet 1958 Mrs Margaret Munson The Young and the Guilty 1958 Gladys Connor A Lady Mislaid 1958 Esther Williams Oscar Wilde 1960 Constance Wilde The Battle of the Villa Fiorita 1965 Margot Twisted Nerve 1968 Enid Durnley Oh What a Lovely War 1969 Lady Dorothy Haig The Walking Stick 1970 Erica Dainton Mr Bean 1991 Old Woman Mrs Dalloway 1997 Aunt Helena Midsomer Murders 2000 Alice BlyBox office ranking EditFor a number of years British film exhibitors voted her among the top ten British stars at the box office via an annual poll in the Motion Picture Herald 1945 5th 52 1946 6th 53 References Edit Lewis Paul 12 October 2002 Phyllis Calvert 87 Virtuous Heroine of Wartime Melodramas The New York Times a b III Harris M Lentz 9 April 2003 Obituaries in the Performing Arts 2002 Film Television Radio Theatre Dance Music Cartoons and Pop Culture McFarland ISBN 9780786452071 via Google Books a b c Brooke Michael 2003 14 BFI Screenonline Calvert Phyllis 1915 2002 Biography BFI Screenonline a b c d e f g h Phyllis Calvert BFI Archived from the original on 1 January 2016 Retrieved 1 June 2015 a b c Eric Shorter 9 October 2002 Obituary Phyllis Calvert The Guardian PHYLLIS CALVERT Britain s Wartime Star The Australasian Vol CLX no 5 065 Victoria Australia 26 January 1946 p 13 Retrieved 29 August 2017 via National Library of Australia a b Phyllis Calvert Telegraph co uk 9 October 2002 Phyllis Calvert Featured in Picture Glen Innes Examiner New South Wales Australia 17 March 1948 p 4 Retrieved 29 August 2017 via National Library of Australia Phyllis Calvert Morwell Advertiser No 2850 Victoria Australia 3 July 1941 p 4 morning Retrieved 29 August 2017 via National Library of Australia Let George Do It 1940 Marcel Varnel Synopsis Characteristics Moods Themes and Related AllMovie Charley s Big hearted Aunt 1940 BFI Retrieved 16 March 2023 Neutral Port 1941 Marcel Varnel Synopsis Characteristics Moods Themes and Related AllMovie Kipps 1941 Carol Reed Synopsis Characteristics Moods Themes and Related AllMovie Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It 1941 BFI Retrieved 16 March 2023 Uncensored 1942 Anthony Asquith Synopsis Characteristics Moods Themes and Related AllMovie The Young Mr Pitt 1942 BFI Retrieved 16 March 2023 a b Phyllis Calvert Biography Movie Highlights and Photos AllMovie The Man in Grey 1943 Leslie Arliss Review AllMovie a b Dyhouse Carol 9 February 2017 Heartthrobs A History of Women and Desire Oxford University Press ISBN 9780191078392 via Google Books BFI Screenonline Two Thousand Women 1944 www screenonline org uk BFI Screenonline They Were Sisters 1945 www screenonline org uk CROSBY and HOPE try their luck in Alaska The Mercury Vol CLXIII no 23 475 Tasmania Australia 2 March 1946 p 3 The Mercury Magazine Retrieved 9 August 2017 via National Library of Australia BFI Screenonline Magic Bow The 1946 www screenonline org uk MEN OF TWO WORLDS colonialfilm www colonialfilm org uk Harper Sue 14 September 2000 Women in British Cinema Mad Bad and Dangerous to Know Bloomsbury Academic ISBN 9780826447333 via Google Books FILM WORLD The West Australian Vol 63 no 18 916 Western Australia 28 February 1947 p 20 SECOND EDITION Retrieved 9 August 2017 via National Library of Australia PHYLLIS CALVERT Makes Her Hollywood Delrit The Mercury Vol CLXVI no 23 915 Tasmania Australia 2 August 1947 p 3 The Mercury Magazine Retrieved 29 August 2017 via National Library of Australia FILMS AND FILM STARS The Examiner Vol CVI no 121 Tasmania Australia 2 August 1947 p 1 WEEK END MAGAZINE SECTION Retrieved 29 August 2017 via National Library of Australia Hollywood can t get along without British stars The World s News No 23 New South Wales Australia 4 October 1947 p 17 Retrieved 4 September 2017 via National Library of Australia PARAMOUNT SIGNS PHYLLIS CALVERT British Actress to Be Seen in Six Films With Make You a Fine Wife as First Waugh to Adapt His Book of Local Origin The New York Times 13 December 1946 p 29 GRADY JOHNSON 7 September 1947 PHYLLIS CALVERT RED HEAD WITHOUT TEMPER The New York Times p X3 Spicer Andrew 5 September 2006 Sydney Box Manchester University Press Retrieved 16 March 2023 via Google Books My Own True Love 1948 Compton Bennett Synopsis Characteristics Moods Themes and Related AllMovie Phyllis Calvert Off To London for New Stage Job The Washington Post 26 October 1947 p L2 Phyllis Calvert talks of home and career The Australian Women s Weekly Vol 17 no 50 20 May 1950 p 52 Retrieved 29 August 2017 via National Library of Australia Strong Edwin J 18 September 1949 PHYLLIS CALVERT RETAINS INTERNATIONAL RATING Los Angeles Times p D1 Scheuer Philip K 30 August 1949 Phyllis Calvert Maps International Features Italian Woos Medea Los Angeles Times p A7 Mr Denning Drives North 1951 Anthony Kimmins Cast and Crew AllMovie The Holly and the Ivy 1951 BFI Retrieved 16 March 2023 S W 25 September 1955 OBSERVATIONS ON THE BRITISH SCREEN SCENE The New York Times ProQuest 113205684 Phyllis Calvert Movies and Filmography AllMovie The Father 27 June 1957 via www imdb com Little Women Part 6 1958 BFI Retrieved 16 March 2023 Indiscreet 1958 Stanley Donen Synopsis Characteristics Moods Themes and Related AllMovie A Lady Mislaid review cast and crew movie star rating and where to watch film on TV and online Radio Times Parnell 10 February 1959 via www imdb com TV com Phyllis Calvert TV com Limelight The Film Years 1991 BFI Retrieved 16 March 2023 Blue Herring 2000 BFI Retrieved 16 March 2023 Midsomer Murders Blue Herrings 2000 Peter Smith Synopsis Characteristics Moods Themes and Related AllMovie a b BBC NEWS Entertainment Actress Phyllis Calvert dies bbc co uk 9 October 2002 CROSBY and HOPE try their luck in Alaska The Mercury Hobart Tasmania 2 March 1946 p 3 Supplement The Mercury Magazine Retrieved 24 April 2012 via National Library of Australia FILM WORLD The West Australian SECOND ed Perth 28 February 1947 p 20 Retrieved 27 April 2012 via National Library of Australia Phyllis Calvert The Times 9 October 2002 Retrieved 28 October 2009 Lewis Paul 12 October 2002 Phyllis Calvert 87 Virtuous Heroine of Wartime Melodramas The New York Times Retrieved 28 October 2009 Actress Phyllis Calvert dies BBC News 9 October 2002 Retrieved 28 October 2009 Phyllis Calvert The Telegraph 9 October 2002 Retrieved 28 October 2009 Modest star a symbol of womanhood The Sydney Morning Herald 22 October 2002 Retrieved 28 October 2009 External links Edit Biography portal Media related to Phyllis Calvert at Wikimedia Commons Phyllis Calvert biography and filmography at the BFI s Screenonline Phyllis Calvert at IMDb Photographs and literature Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Phyllis Calvert amp oldid 1145051072, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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