My friend Lisa Daniely, who has died aged 84, was a familiar face in the films of the 1950s and 60s. She also appeared on stage and continued working as an actor well into her late 70s.
She was born Elizabeth Bodington in Reading, Berkshire, to an English solicitor father and a French mother. She was educated in Paris, where she trained at the Sarah Bernhardt theatre, and made her film debut in 1950 at the age of 21 in the title role of Lilli Marlene. Her film-star looks were on the cover of Picturegoer the following year. Her notable films included High Jump (1959) with Richard Wyler (who also acted under the name Richard Stapley), The Lamp in Assassin Mews (1962) with Francis Matthews, Stranger in the House (1967) with James Mason and Geraldine Chaplin, and, perhaps most famously, Hindle Wakes (1952) with Leslie Dwyer.
On the stage she played Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard,...
She was born Elizabeth Bodington in Reading, Berkshire, to an English solicitor father and a French mother. She was educated in Paris, where she trained at the Sarah Bernhardt theatre, and made her film debut in 1950 at the age of 21 in the title role of Lilli Marlene. Her film-star looks were on the cover of Picturegoer the following year. Her notable films included High Jump (1959) with Richard Wyler (who also acted under the name Richard Stapley), The Lamp in Assassin Mews (1962) with Francis Matthews, Stranger in the House (1967) with James Mason and Geraldine Chaplin, and, perhaps most famously, Hindle Wakes (1952) with Leslie Dwyer.
On the stage she played Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard,...
- 2/25/2014
- The Guardian - Film News
If you’ve hunted around for movie bargains, you’ve probably seen some of Mill Creek Entertainment’s 50-Movie Packs on DVD. Apart from other great releases by Mill Creek, these packs are phenomenal boons to cinephiles looking to collect older titles.
There are three new packs available, and I want to not only let you in on a discount code, but I have one of the packs available for you to win.
I know a lot of people may be quick to overlook these packs, and not every movie included stands out as a major value, but there are some great titles in each of them, and fans of the genres will be pleasantly surprised by what they get out of the deal. I have to admit that there is something about seeing a 50-movie pack, especially when it doesn’t cost a couple of hundred dollars, or more,...
There are three new packs available, and I want to not only let you in on a discount code, but I have one of the packs available for you to win.
I know a lot of people may be quick to overlook these packs, and not every movie included stands out as a major value, but there are some great titles in each of them, and fans of the genres will be pleasantly surprised by what they get out of the deal. I have to admit that there is something about seeing a 50-movie pack, especially when it doesn’t cost a couple of hundred dollars, or more,...
- 5/10/2012
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
COLOGNE, Germany -- Veteran German sales exec Moritz von Kruedener has left his job as managing director of the German office of Sony Pictures Television International to join his old boss Jan Mojto at Beta Film. Von Kruedener has been named managing director of Beta Film and will be responsible for sales of Beta Film's television and film product to German-speaking Europe. Von Kruedener's main job will be managing the massive rights catalog Beta acquired from the insolvent KirchMedia. The library, packaged under Beta-KirchMedia joint venture Kineos, contains more than 10,000 titles, includes classics (Federico Fellini's La Strada, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lilli Marlene), newer films (Evita, The Big Kahuna) and such TV series as Angel, Roswell and Grounded for Life.The move is a return home for von Kruedener, who started his professional career as Mojto's assistant when Mojto was deputy head of KirchMedia.
- 6/24/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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