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Fay Compton
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Fay Compton was christened Virginia Lilian Emeline Compton Mackenzie in London, England on September 18, 1894. Compton made her first professional appearances in between 1911 and 1913 with The Follies under the leadership of H.G.Pelissier, her future husband. She made her mark in the several plays of J. M. Barrie (of Peter Pan fame) introducing him to London audiences, notably in the title role of Mary Rose in 1920. In 1926, she published reminiscences entitled Rosemary: Some remembrances.
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Alastair Sim, Richard Attenborough, Joyce Carey and Fay Compton head an all-star cast in this classic British comedy crime drama set in pre-war London and produced by the acclaimed team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. Christmas Eve, 1938. The lives of all those living in a rooming house in Dulcimer Street, South London are about to change forever. Young Percy Boon (Richard Attenborough) from upstairs takes his first step towards a life of crime.and down-on-his-luck fraudulent medium Henry Squales (Alastair Sim) arrives to take the basement room. The people who live in 10 Dulcimer Street are all very different - but when Percy's criminal career ends in tragedy and he is sent to the gallows, they rally together as Londoners to try and get true justice.
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Her stern matriarchal grandmother (Fay Compton) objects, but Yvette continues to see the dashing young man who awakens her sexual curiosity. She is comforted by Mrs. Fawcett (Honor Blackman) and Major Eastwood (Mark Burns),
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Both her parents were actors, and little Fay was singing and dancing on the West End stage when she was sixteen. Four weeks later she was married to the thirty-seven-year-old producer of the Follies, Harry Pelissier, a 'huge, roly-poly of a man'. A few months later a child was born and just after their second anniversary her husband died of cirrhosis of the liver. Within six weeks she was back on the stage and the following year married again.
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Compton hatte ihre ersten öffentlichen Auftritte zwischen 1911 und 1913 in The Follies unter der Leitung von H. G. Pelissier, den sie später heiratete. Sie erregte Aufmerksamkeit mit verschiedenen Stücken von J. M. Barrie (der Autor von Peter Pan) und machte ihn dadurch dem Londoner Publikum bekannt, am meisten 1920 durch die Rolle der Mary Rose. Im Jahre 1926 veröffentlicht sie unter dem Titel Rosemary: Some remembrances. Erinnerungen daran.
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Active in the classics as well as contemporary material, Compton had the distinction of playing Ophelia opposite two of the most celebrated Hamlets, John Barrymore and John Gielgud. In 1962 she appeared as "Marya" in Sir Laurence Olivier's production of Uncle Vanya at Chichester Festival Theatre.
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