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Her second marriage was to an actor Roger Livesey from 1937 until her death. [9] (Livesey's sister Maggie was already married to Desmond Jeans.) She appeared in one film with Livesey, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). [10] She entertained troops with ENSA during World War II, sometimes working with her husband.
The family tree was further complicated when Roger Livesey married the actress Ursula Jeans, whose brother, Desmond Jeans, was already married to Roger's sister, Maggie. Many of the family formed a touring company of actors, performing in regional theatres and from the back of an old wagon, one side of which could be dropped to form a stage.
It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. The title derives from the satirical Colonel Blimp comic strip by David Low , but the story is original. Although the film is strongly pro-British, it is a satire on the British Army, especially its leadership.
Desmond Jeans (14 November 1903 – December 1974) ... His wife, Margaret Livesey, was the sister of the actor Roger Livesey, who later married Ursula Jeans. [5] [6]
The cast was headed by Athene Seyler as Ranevskaya, with Ursula Jeans (Anya), Charles Laughton (Lopakhin), Roger Livesey (Simeonov-Pishchik), Leon Quartermaine (Gaev) and Flora Robson (Varya). [ 17 ] The first production of The Cherry Orchard by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) was in December 1961 at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre , later ...
Hawtrey had another success on stage when he was cast in the role of Gremio in Tyrone Guthrie's production of The Taming of the Shrew in 1939 at the Old Vic, in which Roger Livesey starred as Petruchio and his wife, Ursula Jeans, as Katherine. Hawtrey was an accomplished musician.
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Brian Duffy was born to Irish parents in London in 1933. During World War II he was evacuated with his two brothers and sister to Kings Langley where he was taken in by the actors Roger Livesey and Ursula Jeans. After a few weeks, his mother, unhappy about her four children being split up from the family insisted they all return to London.