LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Kay Walsh
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The film opens on December 6, 1941, as Kay Walsh (Goldie Hawn, Town & Country, The Banger Sisters) and her husband Jack (Ed Harris, The Hours, A Beautiful Mind) are content with their idyllic and peaceful suburban existence. A day later, America is at war, and Jack, feeling a duty to his country, is quick to enlist, signing up for a position in the Navy. When he finally ships out, Kay is left feeling stranded and bored, with no source of income other than what she is sent by Jack, and no friends of any great significance. So she decides to get a job, and ends up working with a number of other wives in a factory assembling airplane parts and other war-related machinery, the idea of which makes the existing male factory workers uncomfortable, to say the least.
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Kay Walsh (August 27, 1911 – April 16, 2005) was an English actress and dancer. She was born Kathleen Walsh in London, England, and started out in show business dancing in West End music halls. Walsh made her film debut playing Mary Vivien in Get Your Man (1934).
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The new works by the other artists continue to explore ambiguities of language, image and form, proximity and distance. In-site, a video work by Kay Walsh, tracks an unfamiliar landscape in search of evidence. Shot in the dark, lit by torchlight, the camera momentarily rests on details of images only then to resume its endless search of the outlying terrain. Concerned with relationship, Mark Osterfields sculptural pieces are dumb witnesses to unarticulated emotional landscapes. The source images of boats and the Hastings Net-shops are transformed into ciphers suggestive of narratives, but real only in their relationship to each other and the space they inhabit. In Judy Prices video piece Tone, a finger traces the rim of a glass - a circle of light. The empty vessel has become ephemeral; its potential weightlessness speaking of the reducibility of the object to nothing, its continuing resonance creating the potential for thought.
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Born Kathleen Walsh in London, England, blonde actress Kay Walsh started out in show business as a dancer in the West End music halls. She quickly made her film debut playing Mary Vivien in Get Your Man (1934) and became the resourceful lead of a dozen or so 30s comedies, including George Formby's co-star twice in Keep Fit (1937) and 1 See Ice! (1938).
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Kay Walsh was born in London of Irish parentage. There seems to be some confusion on her actual birth year. Some put it as 1914, but the mostly accepted year is 1911. She and her sister Peggy [W]ere raised in Pimlico by their grandmother. She initially gained experience as a dancer in revue in London's West End, Berlin and New York. She made her film debut in 1934 in Get Your Man, which she had followed with appearances in How's Chances?, The Luck of the Irish and The Secret of Stamboul.
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In 1950, Walsh played a shrewd, scheming maid, Nellie Goode, who attempts to blackmail the character played by star Jane Wyman in Hitchcock's Stage Fright. Walsh's favourite role was that of the old pub barmaid, Miss D. Coker, in the 1958 comedy The Horse's Mouth with Alec Guinness. She ... appeared in Vice Versa (1948), written and directed by Peter Ustinov, and Connecting Rooms (1970).
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