Dinah Sheridan Quotes

• While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

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• What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.

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• Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.

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• Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role.

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• They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn’t their first choice!

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• The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.

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• So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.

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• Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

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• It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

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• I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

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• I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

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• I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.

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• But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.

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• After all, a job isn’t worth doing unless you enjoy it.

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Dinah Sheridan (14)

Birth:	17th September, 1920
Death:	25th November, 2012
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress

About

Dinah Sheridan was born in Hampstead, London, England. She was an English actress. She was best known for the films Genevieve and The Railway Children; the long-running BBC comedy series Don't Wait Up; and for her distinguished theatre career in the West End. Her first feature film was Give My Heart. She followed this with playing the second female lead in the acclaimed The Sound Barrier directed by David Lean. The film was a popular and critical success, winning many awards including three BAFTAs, an Academy Award, a New York Critics Circle award and four National Board of Review awards.

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