| 词条 | Rene Ray, Countess of Midleton |
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| name = Rene Ray | image = Rene Ray.jpg | birthname = Irene Lilian Creese | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1911|9|22}} | birth_place = London, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1993|8|28|1911|9|22}} | death_place = Jersey, Channel Islands | years_active = | spouse = George Brodrick, 2nd Earl of Midleton }} Rene Ray, Countess of Midleton (born Irene Lilian Creese, 22 September 1911 – 28 August 1993) was a British stage and screen actress of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s and also a novelist. Acting careerRay made her screen début in the 1929 silent film High Treason and first appeared on the West End stage on 5 December 1930 in the André Charlot production of Wonder Bar at the Savoy Theatre.[1] In 1935 she starred with Conrad Veidt in the Gaumont British film The Passing of the Third Floor Back. Other film co-stars included George Arliss (His Lordship, 1936), John Mills (The Green Cockatoo, 1937), Gordon Harker (The Return of the Frog, 1938) and Trevor Howard (They Made Me a Fugitive, 1947). At London's Lyric Theatre in 1936 she appeared with Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson in JB Priestley's short-lived play Bees on the Boat Deck. Other West End credits included Yes and No (1937), They Walk Alone (1939) and Other People's Houses (1941).[2] Her single Broadway appearance was in Cedric Hardwicke's production of Priestley's An Inspector Calls, which ran at the Booth Theatre from October 1947 to January 1948.[3] In 1951–52 she starred in the London production of Sylvia Rayman's Women of Twilight, playing the central role nearly 450 times and reprising her performance in the subsequent film version.[4] She made her last screen appearance as an interviewee in the BBC documentary Britain's Missing Movie Heritage, broadcast on 30 September 1992, 11 months before her death.[5] BooksShe turned to writing for much of her later career. Her first novel, Wraxtoon Marne, appeared in 1946.[1] According to a 1953 magazine profile, "Her second book, Emma Conquest, was an immediate best-seller."[6] (First published in 1950, this was reissued in 2010.) Other books included A Man Named Seraphin (1952) and The Tree Surgeon (1958). In 1956 she scripted the seven-part ATV science fiction serial The Strange World of Planet X; the following year her novelisation was published by Herbert Jenkins Ltd and a feature film based on it was made by Artistes Alliance. In the United States the film was renamed Cosmic Monsters.[7] Personal lifeHer father was Alfred Edward Creese, a famous British automotive and aviation inventor.[8] Born as Irene, she signed her name with a grave accent on the first 'e', not an acute accent on the second (Rène not René); her method was followed on all theatre programmes, book jackets and other publicity material. Her first husband was the composer George Posford.[9] In the 1950s she met George St John Brodrick, 2nd Earl of Midleton (1888–1979); she moved with him to Jersey in 1963 and became his third wife in 1975, thus allowing her to style herself the Countess of Midleton.[8] In retirement she became an accomplished amateur painter and a member of the Jersey Film Society, which in 1986 opened its 40th season with a screening of The Passing of the Third Floor Back.[8] She died in 1993. Selected filmography{{div col|colwidth=24em}}
References1. ^1 'Rene Ray dies at 81' [obituary], The New York Times 6 September 1993 2. ^http://theatricalia.com/person/qek/rene-ray 3. ^http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=12862 4. ^Frances Stephens, Theatre World Annual (London), Rockliff Publishing Corporation, 1952 5. ^http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/148?view=credit 6. ^'Meet Rene Ray: The Girl They Passed By', Answers (week ending) 10 January 1953 7. ^http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/strange_world_of_planet_x_the 8. ^1 2 Michael Rhodes, 'The Countess of Midleton' [obituary], The Times 3 September 1993 9. ^Famous Film Stars No 21: Rene Ray, R and J Hill Ltd [cigarette card] 1938 External links
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