Dinah Sheridan
Dinah Sheridan
Dinah Sheridan was an English actress with a career spanning seven decades. She was best known for the films Genevieveand The Railway Children; the long-running BBC comedy series Don't Wait Up; and for her distinguished theatre career in the West End...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth17 September 1920
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I've had a very strange life. Whenever I've married, I've married for life. But things have gone desperately wrong.
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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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They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!
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During the last week of location work out on the Yorkshire moors near Howarth, I learned that I had become a Grandmother for the first time.
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Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role.
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There's no secret about mine-to do another Genevieve with John, Ken and Kay!
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So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.
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I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was hard. It was not a very happy time for me.
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I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.
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But I think you could say my parts in Appointment In London and Gilbert and Sullivan were particularly interesting.
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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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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 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.