Phyllis Hannah Murray-Hill (née Bickle; 1915 – 2002), known professionally as Phyllis Calvert. English film, stage and television actress. She was one of the leading stars of the Gainsborough melodramas of the 1940s such as The Man in Grey (1943) and was one of the most popular movie stars in Britain in the 1940s. She continued her acting career for another 50 years.
In the words of an article by Michael Brooke for the BFI's Screenonline website: "Most of the time she drew what looked like the short straw, playing the 'good girl' in films that revelled in the exploits of her wicked opposite number, and it says much for her talent and charisma that she was able to hold attention in what must have seemed thankless parts – she herself acknowledged that 'I do think it is much more difficult to establish a really charming, nice person than a wicked one – and make it real'."
- "...the redheaded Miss Calvert was one of the cornerstones of Gainsborough Pictures..." https://www.nytimes.com/.../phyllis-calvert-87-virtuous...
- "Unaccustomed as it is to forthright speaking, Hollywood is in a pleasant dilemma over a red-haired Englishwoman named Phyllis Calvert." https://www.nytimes.com/.../phyllis-calvert-redhead...
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