Anne Heywood

Actor: Anne Heywood

Born: Dec 11, 1932 in Handsworth, England
Occupation: Actor
Active: '50s-'70s
Major Genres: Drama, Adventure
Career Highlights: The Fox, The Chairman, Petticoat Pirates
First Major Screen Credit: The Depraved (1957)

Biography

While "Violet Pretty" may have been an acceptable moniker in the silent-movie days, it sounded too showbizzy to be true in the early 1950s: that's why English beauty-contest winner Violet Pretty became Anne Heywood upon entering films. She started out in bits in programmers like Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951), then rose to leading-lady status in the mid-1950s in such audience pleasers as Doctor at Large (1957) and Upstairs and Downstairs (1959). Remaining popular in Britain throughout the 1960s, Heywood was more or less an unknown quantity to American filmgoers, except for those art-house habitues who recalled her excellent work in the pioneering lesbian-themed drama The Fox (1968). The producer of 1969's Midas Run hoped to make Heywood a household name in the U.S. by having her appear prominently in the film's radio and TV ads together with male lead Fred Astaire. That producer was Raymond Stross, who happened to be the husband of Anne Heywood. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Anne Heywood
Born	Violet Pretty 11 December 1932 (1932-12-11) (age 76) Handsworth, Birmingham, England, UK
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1951–1988

Anne Heywood (born 11 December 1932) is a British film actress.

Born as Violet Pretty in Handsworth, Birmingham, England, she won the Miss Great Britain title under her real name in 1950, and also attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She began acting in films in the early 1950s, first in supporting roles but gradually evolving into a leading lady.

One of her more prominent film roles was in a film adaptation of a D. H. Lawrence novel, The Fox, co-starring Sandy Dennis, made in 1967, which caused controversy at the time due to its lesbian themes. In the 1970s, she appeared in several giallo-type thrillers made in Italy.

Her career declined in the 1980s, and after a character role in the TV series The Equalizer, she retired from acting. She now resides in the United States.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1951	Lady Godiva Rides Again	Dorothy Marlowe (beauty contest contestant)	(as Violet Pretty)
1956	Find the Lady	Receptionist
1956	Checkpoint	Gabriela
1957	The Depraved	Laura Wilton
	Doctor at Large	Emerald
	Dangerous Exile	Glynis
1958	Violent Playground	Catherine 'Cathie' Murphy
1959	The Heart of a Man	Julie
	Floods of Fear	Elizabeth Matthews
	Upstairs and Downstairs	Kate
1960	Carthage in Flames	Fulvia
1960	A Terrible Beauty	Neeve Donnelly
1961	Petticoat Pirates	Chief Oficer Anne Stevens
1962	The Very Edge	Tracey Lawrence
	Stork Talk	Lisa Vernon
	The Brain	Anna Holt
1965	Ninety Degrees in the Shade	Alena
1967	The Fox	Ellen March	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1969	The Lady of Monza	Virginia de Leyva
	Midas Run	Sylvia Giroux
	The Chairman	Kay Hanna
1972	Scenes from a Murder	Eleanor Loraine
1972	I Want What I Want	Roy/Wendy
1973	The Nun and the Devil	Mother Giulia
1973	Trader Horn	Nicole Mercer
1974	Love Under the Elms
1979	Ring of Darkness	Carlotta Rhodes
1979	Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff	Evelyn Wyckoff
1984	What Waits Below	Frieda Shelley

External links

Anne Heywood at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
NAME	Heywood, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	British actress
DATE OF BIRTH	11 December 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Handsworth, Birmingham, England, UK
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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