A subtle comedy part, I think, requires more finesse than a heavy dramatic role.
After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.
Because of double hip replacements, I don't play regular golf, but we do lots of putting with delightful people. It's most enjoyable.
But as Wendy McKim, I got the type of part I had always wanted-a girl who displayed all her emotion; a well-rounded, completely-human, entirelyconvincing type of person.
But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.
But I think you could say my parts in Appointment In London and Gilbert and Sullivan were particularly interesting.
During the last week of location work out on the Yorkshire moors near Howarth, I learned that I had become a Grandmother for the first time.
He asked whether I knew E. Nesbit's book The Railway Children, and whether I would consider playing the Mother.
I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.
It almost killed me, but without a doubt, I'd pick my role in the new Pinewood comedy, Genevieve, as my favourite.
It has always been my belief that it is harder to laugh than to cry on the screen.
It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.
Lionel had never directed before, but, as an actor, he was sensitive to the reactions of actors, and he did a magnificent job.
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.
So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.
Suddenly everyone wanted to employ me, but I discovered that my new husband wouldn't allow me even to think about acting.
The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.
They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!
Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role.
Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.
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.
While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.
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