Betty Ann Davies


Biography

Betty Ann Davies was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career. Davies started off her career in film with roles in the drama "It Always Rains on Sunday" (1949) with Googie Withers and the John Mills drama "The History of Mr. Polly" (1949). Davies made film her next project, appearing in "Outcast of the Islands" (1951) with Ralph Richardson, "Grand National Night" (1953) a...

Biography

Betty Ann Davies was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career. Davies started off her career in film with roles in the drama "It Always Rains on Sunday" (1949) with Googie Withers and the John Mills drama "The History of Mr. Polly" (1949). Davies made film her next project, appearing in "Outcast of the Islands" (1951) with Ralph Richardson, "Grand National Night" (1953) and "The Belles of St. Trinian's" (1954). Later in her career, Davies acted in "Murder By Proxy" (1955). Davies passed away in May 1955 at the age of 45.

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Passionate Friends, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) The Restrictions Imposed Near soliloquy by Claude Rains as banker Howard, alarmed because his wife and her supposedly platonic friend left their tickets for the theater behind, Betty Ann Davies his assistant, outwardly calm but with intense double-entendre in the language, from H.G. Wells’ novel and Eric Ambler’s script, in director David Lean’s The Passionate Friends, 1949.
Belles Of St. Trinian's, The (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Scripture And Needlework First scene for Alastair Sim in both parts of his double role, Vivienne Martin as Bella, daughter of Clarence Fritton, arriving with him at the school which evidently has all the locals terrified, and is run by his shiftless sister Millicent, in The Belles Of St. Trinian’s, 1954, based on popular cartoons and books by Ronald Searle.
Belles Of St. Trinian's, The (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Get It Off Your Conscience! Miss Buckland (Mary Merrall) introduces the prized new pupil (Lorna Henderson as Princess Fatima) to ne’er-do-well girls’ school staffers, Renee Houston, Beryl Reid, Balbina, Hermione Baddeley, Irene Handl and Betty Ann Davies, later joined by their boss Miss Fritton (Alastair Sim in drag), in The Belles Of St. Trinian’s, 1954.
Outcast of the Islands -- (Movie Clip) You've Made Me Happy Willems (Trevor Howard) takes leave of his wife (Betty Ann Davies) in this brief but chilling scene from director Carol Reed's Outcast of the Islands, 1951, from the Joseph Conrad novel.

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