Celebrity Biographies
Sheila sim
He was enormously famous in the London theater, because he premiered “The Mousetrap” in 1952, the famous play by Agatha Christie that has been on the bill ever since (64 years). On Tuesday, January 19, 2016, the performance at Nottingham’s Theater Royal in the British capital closed with the sad announcement that the actress, Sheila Sim, had died at the age of 93. The original protagonist was accompanied in the first performances of her by her husband, the actor and later filmmaker Richard Attenborough.
Sheila Beryl Grant (original name of the performer, better known as The Lady Attenborough) was born in Liverpool on June 5, 1922. From the 1940s she became a regular presence on the West End theater stages. In 1944, she made her film debut as the protagonist of A Canterbury Tale , by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger , where she played a young civilian volunteer who, with the help of an army sergeant, tries to solve the riddle of the ‘ghost of the ghost’ during World War II. glue’, a stranger who pours glue into the hair of girls who date soldiers.
In 1945, she married Richard Attenborough , who was just beginning his journey at that time. Both achieved great success with the premiere of the text of the Lady of Mystery, where she played Mollie Ralston, owner of the Mokswell Manor guest house, where they and six other characters are trapped because of the snow, including a Sergeant played by Richard.
In cinema, the actress had her most outstanding intervention together with Ava Gardner and James Mason in the romantic Pandora and the Flying Dutchman , where she played the niece of the friend of the leading singer, narrator of the story. The film, shot in the Catalan town of Tossa de Mar, was a resounding failure at the box office. The rest of the interpreter’s film career is reduced to a dozen very minor films, including The Guinea Pig , in which she starred with her husband.
Nor was he lavished much on television, since he only appeared in three telefilms. She, however, was very active in the theater, until she retired in 1955 to dedicate herself to her family. The Attenboroughs had three children, Michael (director), Jane, and Charlotte (actress). Misfortune struck the middle child, Jane, who died with her daughter and her mother-in-law in the terrible Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Richard Attenborough passed away on August 24, 2014, when they were about to celebrate their 70th birthday. years of marriage The actress suffered in her last years of senile dementia.