Wendy Hiller in I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)

Dame Wendy Hiller (August 15, 1912 – May 14, 2003) was a distinguished English film and stage actress. Image File history File links Wendy Hiller in I Know Where Im Going!. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Wendy Hiller in I Know Where Im Going!. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) and Torquil MacNeil (Roger Livesey) look on at a Ceilidh. ... August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ... May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (135th in leap years). ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Theatre is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...

Born Wendy Margaret Hiller in Cheshire, England, the daughter of Frank Watkin Hiller and Marie Stone, her professional debut as an actress was in repertory at Manchester. She first found success in the stage version of Love on the Dole, and in 1936 married the author Ronald Gow. Her performance in Love on the Dole attracted the attention of George Bernard Shaw, and he cast her in several of his plays, including Saint Joan, Pygmalion and Major Barbara. Unlike other actresses of her generation, she did relatively little Shakespeare, preferring the more modern dramatists such as Henrik Ibsen and new plays adapted from the novels of Henry James and Thomas Hardy among others. This article is about the English county. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity... Properly, repertory is a style of a number of repertory companies which rehearsed and performed plays in a fortnight. ... This article is about the city in England. ... Love on the Dole is a novel by Walter Greenwood, about working class poverty in 1930s Northern England. ... 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ronald Gow (November 1, 1897 – April 27, 1993) was an English dramatist, best known for Love on the Dole (1934). ... George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950) was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. ... Saint Joan is a 1923 play by George Bernard Shaw that he wrote shortly after the Roman Catholic Church canonized Joan of Arc. ... Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw written in 1913. ... Major Barbara is a 1941 United Artists motion picture starring Wendy Hiller as Barbara Undershaft, Rex Harrison as Adolphus Cusins, Robert Morley as Andrew Undershaft, Robert Newton as Bill Walker, and Sybil Thorndike as The General, with Marie Lohr as Lady Britomart, and Deborah Kerr as Jenny Hill. ... Henrik Johan Ibsen (March 20, 1828–May 23, 1906) was an extremely influential Norwegian playwright who was largely responsible for the rise of the modern realistic drama. ... This article is about the writer; for the politician who was almost his contemporary see Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford. ... Photograph of Hardy Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was a novelist and poet, generally regarded as one of the greatest figures in English literature. ...

Her impressive film debut in Pygmalion earned her a nomination for an Oscar in 1938 for her role as Eliza Doolittle. She followed up this success with another Shaw classic, Major Barbara, in 1941, and starred in the 1945 Powell & Pressburger classic I Know Where I'm Going. Despite these and several other notable performances, she remained primarily a stage actress. Nevertheless, she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1958 for the film Separate Tables, and was nominated again in 1966 for her performance as Dame Alice (wife of Sir Thomas More) in A Man for All Seasons. The tragic and abused colonial wife in Outcast of the Islands (1952), her complex performance as the possessive mother in Sons and Lovers (1960) and as the wonderfully grotesque Russian Princess in Murder on the Orient Express (1974) are also considered particularly memorable. Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Eliza Doolittle is a fictional character who appears in the play Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw, 1912) and, by extension, the musical version of that play My Fair Lady. ... Major Barbara is a play by George Bernard Shaw about an officer in the Salvation Army. ... Powell and Pressburger were a British-based film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, also known as The Archers. ... Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) and Torquil MacNeil (Roger Livesey) look on at a Ceilidh. ... The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Separate Tables is a 1958 film, based on the play by Terence Rattigan and directed by Delbert Mann. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Portrait of Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein the Younger Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478–6 July 1535), posthumously known also as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, writer, and politician. ... A Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt, first performed on November 22, 1961. ... Sons and Lovers is a novel by D.H. Lawrence which tells the story of Paul Morel, a young man and a budding artist. ... Murder on the Orient Express (Collins, London, 1934) also called Murder on the Calais Coach (Dodd Mead, New York, 1934) is a 1934 novel by Agatha Christie, made into a 1974 movie entitled The book was first published in Saturday Evening Post, from July 1 to September 30, 1933. ...

In the course of her stage career, Wendy Hiller won popular and critical acclaim in both London and New York. She excelled at rather plain but strong willed characters, most notably in The Heiress, Waters of the Moon, Flowering Cherry and The Aspern Papers. She was nominated for Broadway's Tony Award in 1958 as Best Dramatic Actress for her performance in Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten. Later West End successes such as Queen Mary in Crown Matrimonial in 1972 proved she was not limited to playing dejected, emotionally deprived women. What is popularly called the Tony Award® (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater. ... Eugene ONeill Eugene Gladstone ONeill (New York City, October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953 in Boston) was an American playwright. ... West End is the name of some places in the world, including: The West End of London, England West End Theatre, is where many of Londons major theatres are located and premier cinema screenings take place. ... HSH Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. ...

Wendy Hiller was made a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1975 . Regarded as one of Britain's great dramatic talents, her style was disciplined and unpretentious, and she abhorred personal publicity. ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...

Dame Wendy's final West End performance was the title role in Driving Miss Daisy in 1988. She made many notable television appearances in the 1980s, including Miss Morrison's Ghosts (1981) and the BBC dramatization of the Vita Sackville-West novel All Passion Spent (1986). She eventually retired from acting in 1992. She died at her home in Beaconsfield in 2003 at the age of 90. Vita Sackville-West (March 9, 1892 – June 2, 1962) was an English writer and landscape gardener. ... Location within the British Isles Beaconsfield is a market town in Buckinghamshire, England, about 30 miles NW of London. ...

Filmography

• Lancashire Luck (1937)
• Pygmalion (1938)
• Major Barbara (1941)
• I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
• Outcast of the Islands (1952)
• Single-Handed (USA: Sailor of the King) (1953)
• How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957)
• Something of Value (1957)
• Separate Tables (1958)
• Sons and Lovers (1960)
• Toys in the Attic (1963)
• A Man for All Seasons (1966)
• Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
• Voyage of the Damned (1976)
• The Cat and The Canary (1978)
• The Elephant Man (1980)
• Making Love (1982)
• Attracta (1983)
• The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)

1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw written in 1913. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Major Barbara is a 1941 United Artists motion picture starring Wendy Hiller as Barbara Undershaft, Rex Harrison as Adolphus Cusins, Robert Morley as Andrew Undershaft, Robert Newton as Bill Walker, and Sybil Thorndike as The General, with Marie Lohr as Lady Britomart, and Deborah Kerr as Jenny Hill. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) and Torquil MacNeil (Roger Livesey) look on at a Ceilidh. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1952 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Separate Tables is a 1958 film, based on the play by Terence Rattigan and directed by Delbert Mann. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sons and Lovers is a novel by D.H. Lawrence which tells the story of Paul Morel, a young man and a budding artist. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt, first performed on November 22, 1961. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Murder on the Orient Express (Collins, London, 1934) also called Murder on the Calais Coach (Dodd Mead, New York, 1934) is a 1934 novel by Agatha Christie, made into a 1974 movie entitled The book was first published in Saturday Evening Post, from July 1 to September 30, 1933. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Voyage of the Damned is the title of a 1976 film drama inspired by true events concerning the fate of an ocean liner carrying Jewish refugees from Germany to Cuba in 1939. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... The Elephant Man is a 1980 biographical film which tells the story of the 19th century British deformed celebrity Joseph Merrick. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Selected TV

• David Copperfield (1969)
• Clochemerle (1972)
• Richard II (1978)
• Country (1981)
• Miss Morrison's Ghosts (1981)
• The Kingfisher (1982)
• Witness for the Prosecution (1982)
• The Importance of Being Earnest (1985)
• The Death of the Heart (1985)
• All Passion Spent (1986)
• Anne Of Green Gables: The Sequel (1987)
• A Taste for Death (1988)
• Ending Up (1989)
• The Best Of Friends (1991)
• The Countess Alice (1992)

1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Witness for the Prosecution is a play by Agatha Christie, which has been twice made into a film. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Wendy Hiller at the Internet Movie Database
• Wendy Hiller at screenonline