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Dame Virginia Anne McKenna [1] (born 7 June 1931) is a British stage and screen actress, author, animal rights activist, and wildlife campaigner. She is best known for the films A Town Like Alice (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Born Free (1966), and Ring of Bright Water (1969), as well as her work with the Born Free Foundation.
The 91-year-old actress said she and her husband Bill Travers ‘shared a belief in the power’ of everyone to change society. Virginia McKenna: My damehood belongs to those fighting to end ...
A Town Like Alice is a 1956 British drama film produced by Joseph Janni and starring Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch that is based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Nevil Shute. [2] The film does not follow the whole novel, concluding at the end of part two and truncating or omitting much detail. It was partially filmed in Malaya and ...
Carve Her Name with Pride is a 1958 British war drama film based on the book of the same name by R. J. Minney. [1]The film, directed by Lewis Gilbert, is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive agent Violette Szabo, GC, who was captured and executed while serving in Nazi-occupied France.
The Born Free Foundation was co-founded by British actress and wildlife campaigner Virginia McKenna. Wildlife charity co-founded by British actress ‘delighted’ by giraffe twins Skip to main ...
Travers briefly returned to Britain to make a comedy, The Smallest Show on Earth (1957), with his second wife Virginia McKenna, whom he had married in 1957. [14] Back in Hollywood, he was Eleanor Parker's character's love interest in The Seventh Sin (1957), a remake of a Greta Garbo film. [11]
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Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring the real-life couple Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, another real-life couple, who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood and released her into the wilderness of Kenya.