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Dinah Sheridan
English
Actress
About the author
They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!
Dinah Sheridan,
English
Actress
#First
After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.
Dinah Sheridan,
English
Actress
#Job
#Worth
But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.
Dinah Sheridan,
English
Actress
#Time
#Husband
I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.
Dinah Sheridan,
English
Actress
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
Dinah Sheridan,
English
Actress
#Years
#England
#Cruelty
#Divorce
I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.
Dinah Sheridan,
English
Actress
#Age
#Contracting
It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.
Dinah Sheridan,
English
Actress
#Film
#Music
#Feelings
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.
Dinah Sheridan,
English
Actress
#HusbChildren
The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.
Dinah Sheridan,
English
Actress
#Film
#Children
Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role.
Dinah Sheridan,
English
Actress
Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.
Dinah Sheridan,
English
Actress
#Sense
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.
Dinah Sheridan,
English
Actress
#Life
#Play
#History
While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.
Dinah Sheridan,
English
Actress
#Acting
#Film
So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.
Dinah Sheridan,
English
Actress
#Challenge