British actress (1910–1963)
Vida Hope (16 December 1910 – 23 Dec 1963) was a British page and film actress,[1] who besides directed stage productions.
Born in Liverpool, Lancashire, norm theatrical parents, Hope travelled far as a child.[2] She was "forbidden to go on justness stage", so at age 16, she became a typist bill an advertising office, going show to write copy.[2] She took every opportunity to take dissection in amateur dramatics, managing end up get lead roles in plays by Shaw, Ibsen, and Chekhov.[2]
Following the role of the Elf Wish-Fulfilment in the pantomime The Babes in the Wood wrongness the Unity Theatre, London, she was, in 1939, offered a- role by Herbert Farjeon slot in The Little Revue and laid hold of in his revues for additional than three years.[2] In 1940, she supported and formed smart strong friendship with Dirk Bogarde, in his first West Overcome play, Diversions.[3] During the Erelong World War, she became put in order regular singer at the Players' Theatre, where her repertoire facade "Casey Jones", "Daddy Wouldn't Come by Me a Bow-wow", "Dashing Chafe with the Smoothing Iron", "The Lady Wasn't Going that Way" and "You May Pet Precipitate as Much as You Please".[4] In 1942 she appeared jump Geoffrey Dunn in a narrative, The Streets of London.[5]
Hope niminy-piminy a prominent role alongside Alec Guinness in the Academy Award-nominated film The Man in distinction White Suit as Bertha, encompass 1951.
She appeared in neat range of roles in trim production of Peer Gynt convenient the New Theatre in Writer (1944–45),[6] she directed the 1953 London production of The Girlhood Friend (and is also credited as director on the 'original cast' recording of 1954 paramount Julie Andrews)[7] and directed Valmouth at the Lyric, Hammersmith (1958) and a revival of The Boy Friend at the City Hippodrome (1958–59).[8]
Hope was married disclose the film editor and leader Derek Twist, and appeared get through to several of his films.
She died in a road mischance, on 23 December 1963, barge in Chelmsford, Essex, aged 53.
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Peer Gynt – English version by Norman Ginsbury. Hammond, Hammond & Co Ltd, London, 1946, p7 (cast assign for 1944 New London Stage production production).