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Susannah York: Shoot Horses
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Susannah York trained at RADA and shot to stardom in such films as Tunes of Glory, Tom Jones and A Man for All Seasons. Other films include They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (for which she was Oscar-nominated), Superman and The Maids. She is a highly acclaimed stage and TV actress, and has toured worldwide in three one-woman shows, Independent State, The Human Voice (her own adaptation of Cocteau), and The Loves of Shakespeare's Women.
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In 1960, York appeared in her second movie, Tunes of Glory, costarring with Alec Guinness and John Mills. She appeared in the films A Man for All Seasons (1966), The Killing of Sister George (1968) and Battle of Britain (1969). She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969). In 1972 she won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Images. She famously snubbed the Academy Awards when, regarding her nomination, she declared it offended her to be nominated without being asked.
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Susannah made her first film Tunes of Gloryin 1960 with Alec Guinness, and has since worked with screen legends such as John Gielgud, Albert Finney and Laurence Olivier. She starred in Oscar-winning Britishmovies Tom Jones and A Man For All Seasons, and was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? In 1972 she won Best Actress at Cannes for her role in Images.
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Glenda Jackson (Women In Love, A Touch of Class) is at her sneering finest as Solange, and as Claire, Susannah York (The Killing of Sister George, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?) exudes dark sexuality and malevolence. Claire and Solange are the twisted sister maids of the title,working for Vivien Merchant’s Madame in a chic Parisian townhouse. The maids’ play-acting slowly reveals dark desires, skewed sexual and class politics and even worse, dementia and murderous intent.
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