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Vera Frances is a Actor born on 29 september 1930 at Dagenham (United-kingdom)
Vera Frances (born 1930) is a British actress who worked with Arthur Askey, Tommy Handley, George Formby, Dinah Sheridan, John Mills and Alastair Sim, among others.
Frances's father was a props and special effects man for Gainsborough Pictures at Grove Studio's in Shepherds Bush, she made her first film appearance inBack-Room Boy as the Cockney girl Jane. she then went on to make another five films.
In her early teens Frances left the movies to follow her ambition to be a dance teacher. This proved to be very successful and resulted in a dance school. After marrying Dennis William Ward in 1953 Frances moved the school to March in Cambridgeshire. Dennis Ward died in Cambridge aged 73 in 2000; Vera Frances still lives in Cambridgeshire.
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Frances's father was a props and special effects man for Gainsborough Pictures at Grove Studio's in Shepherds Bush, she made her first film appearance inBack-Room Boy as the Cockney girl Jane. she then went on to make another five films.
In her early teens Frances left the movies to follow her ambition to be a dance teacher. This proved to be very successful and resulted in a dance school. After marrying Dennis William Ward in 1953 Frances moved the school to March in Cambridgeshire. Dennis Ward died in Cambridge aged 73 in 2000; Vera Frances still lives in Cambridgeshire.
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I'll Give My Life (1960)
, 1h18Directed by William F. Claxton
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ray Collins, Angie Dickinson, Katherine Warren, Donald Woods, Jon Shepodd, Stuart Randall
Roles Tem Lane, Secretary
Rating59%
John Bradford expects son Jim to join his engineering firm, but Jim instead joins the ministry, attending a seminary for four years before being assigned to New Guinea.
Good-Time Girl (1948)
, 1h21Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Herbert Lom, Bonar Colleano, Peter Glenville, Diana Dors
Roles Edie Rawlings
Rating64%
The film opens with Miss Thorpe, the chairman of the Juvenile court, giving advice to troubled teenager Lyla Lawrence. Miss Thorpe tells Lyla that her life has a similar beginning to that of Gwen Rawlings.
Waterloo Road (1945)
, 1h13Directed by Sidney Gilliat
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim, Joy Shelton, Alison Leggatt, Beatrice Varley
Roles Vera Colter
Rating63%
John Mills plays an AWOL soldier who returns to south London to save his wife from the advances of a philandering draft-dodger played by Stewart Granger.
Get Cracking (1943)
Directed by Marcel Varnel
Genres War, Comedy, Romance
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors George Formby, Dinah Sheridan, Edward Rigby, Ronald Shiner, Frank Pettingell, Harry Fowler
Roles Irene
Rating59%
This comedy explores the wayward rivalry between mechanic and Home Guard lance corporal George Singleton (George Formby) and an adversary also in the Home Guard (Ronald Shiner). When the rival Home Guard units of Major Wallop and Minor Wallop are sent on battle manoeuvres, George Singleton (Formby) launches his own unique style of commando raid against neighbouring Major Wallop to steal a Vickers machine gun. The raid fails and Singleton loses his lance corporal's stripe, so he and a little evacuee girl named Irene (Vera Frances) decide to fall back on 'Plan B' - to build their very own tank. The venture is such a success that George is made a sergeant.
It's That Man Again (1943)
Directed by Walter Forde
Genres Comedy
Actors Greta Gynt, Vera Frances, Jean Kent
Roles Daisy
Rating57%
Back-Room Boy (1942)
, 1h22Directed by Herbert Mason
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Moore Marriott, Arthur Askey, Graham Moffatt, Googie Withers, Vera Frances, Joyce Howard
Roles Jane
Rating61%
Arthur Askey plays meteorologist Arthur Pilbeam who is jilted by his fiancée Betty because he has to speed back to the BBC every hour, on the hour due to his internationally vital job of creating the BBC pips. As he cannot be fired during wartime and wanting to avoid all women, he is assigned the solitary job of sending weather reports from a remote Scottish lighthouse. Before taking a boat from the mainland during the four hours of daylight that are available for the time of year, the locals warn him he will go mad from isolation and the curse of a mermaid within a month as others have.
King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942)
, 1h39Directed by Marcel Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Musical
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Musical films, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Arthur Askey, Vera Frances, Brefni O'Rorke, Anne Shelton, Ronald Shiner
Roles Vera
Rating55%
Set during World War II, the plot involves the diminutive Arthur joining the army to prove himself to his girlfriend Susan (Evelyn Dall), who is in the same unit as him. Here, his idealistic notions about King Arthur prompt his messmates to trick him into believing that a sword they have dug up is the fabled Excalibur. Armed with this talisman Arthur strides forth to deal with the Wehrmacht.