• Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson, DBE (18 December 1908 – 26 April 1982) was an English actress, whose career included stage, television and film. She is...
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  • by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life. Starring Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, and Joyce Carey, it follows a passionate...
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  • 1995), Spanish footballer Celia Johnson, actress Celia Kaye, actress Celia Keenan-Bolger, actress Celia Kitzinger, professor Celia Larkin, partner of Irish...
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  • title role as an unrestrained teacher at a girls' school in Edinburgh. Celia Johnson, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, and Gordon Jackson are featured in...
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  • Technicolor drama film directed by David Lean and starring Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Stanley Holloway and John Mills. The screenplay by Lean (who also made...
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  • the ship's captain. The film also starred John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson and Richard Attenborough in his first screen role. In Which We Serve...
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    rekindled, it opened with Celia Johnson as the female lead. It ran for six months, and would have lasted much longer had Johnson not withdrawn, leaving Richardson...
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  • was born in Nettlebed, England. She is the second daughter of actress Celia Johnson and writer Peter Fleming (brother of James Bond author Ian Fleming)...
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    often had to fight over roles with her two rivals, Peggy Ashcroft and Celia Johnson. In the following years, she played supporting roles in several Hollywood...
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  • during his time at Oxford. On 10 December 1935 he married the actress Celia Johnson (1908–1982), best known for her roles in the films Brief Encounter and...
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    1999 In the Name of Love Helen Walters TV film Goodnight Sweetheart Celia Johnson 1 episode 2000 Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes Elspeth...
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    Breed (1944), Blithe Spirit (1945) and Brief Encounter (1945) with Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard as quietly understated clandestine lovers, torn between...
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    Davis Faye Dunaway Jodie Foster Lady Gaga Susan Hayward Judy Holliday Celia Johnson Grace Kelly Anna Magnani Giulietta Masina Virginia McKenna Melina Mercouri...
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    (19th) Olivia de Havilland ‡ Josephine "Jody" Norris To Each His Own Celia Johnson Laura Jesson Brief Encounter Jennifer Jones Pearl Chavez Duel in the...
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    he married actress Lucy Fleming, the daughter of Peter Fleming and Celia Johnson and the niece of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.[citation needed] "Simon...
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  • West End on November 3, 1960, running until the following March with Celia Johnson and Anthony Quayle in the leads; directed by Howard Sackler, the production...
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  • long run with Wilfrid Hyde-White continuing to play the father and Celia Johnson the neurotic mother, Sheila Broadbent. The production was directed by...
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  • was dramatised in 1973 as part of the BBC series Play for Today, with Celia Johnson playing Mrs Palfrey. Joan Plowright as Sarah Palfrey Rupert Friend as...
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    with her third solo show. Alongside the familiar characters, such as Celia Johnson, she created Chris, a swinger from Portslade, Björk singing a song about...
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    Onedin Line / The Strauss Family Anne Onedin / Anna Strauss 1974 (20th) Celia Johnson Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont Mrs. Palfrey Francesca Annis A Pin to...
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    Keith-Johnston, and opened at the St James's Theatre in London in 1936, starring Celia Johnson and Hugh Williams. First Impressions was a 1959 Broadway musical version...
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    West End debut at the Haymarket, in N. C. Hunter's The Tulip Tree with Celia Johnson and John Clements. She was invited to join the National Theatre for...
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  • The first castaway was Vic Oliver, and several castaways, including Celia Johnson, Arthur Askey, Trevor Nunn, John Schlesinger, Kenneth Williams, Terry...
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    at Rawlinson End (1980), in which he played the title role. He and Celia Johnson from Brief Encounter were reunited in Staying On (1980) for British...
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  • appeared in A Woman Called Golda (1982) as a young Golda Meir. Lean wanted Celia Johnson, star of Brief Encounter, to play Mrs Moore, but she turned down the...
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  • Flowering Cherry (1958), he had three leading ladies in succession: Celia Johnson, Wendy Hiller and finally Forbes. In 1959 Forbes took the part of the...
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    a half hours, were one hour long. Leslie Banks played Pierre while Celia Johnson was Natasha. In December 1970, Pacifica Radio station WBAI broadcast...
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    concept came from Brief Encounter by Noël Coward, in which Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) meets Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard) for a thwarted tryst in his friend's...
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    Ana Celia de Armas Caso (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈana ˈselja ðe ˈaɾmas ˈkaso]; born 30 April 1988) is a Cuban and Spanish actress. She began her career...
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  • Inebriate Woman, the latter also being named Best Drama Production. Dame Celia Johnson was named Best Actress for Mrs. Palfrey At The Claremont, broadcast...
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