Patricia Laffan

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Patricia Alice Laffan (19 1919 – 10 March 2014) was an English stage, film, television, and radio actress, as well as, after her departure from acting, an international fashion impresario.

She was five-feet-six inches tall, with black reddish-brown hair and green eyes.

She is best known for her film appearances as Empress Poppaea (1951) and the alien Nyah in Mars' "Genetic Girl (1954).

Early life

Patricia Laffan was the niece of Irish-born Arthur Charles Laffan (1870-1948) and Elvira Vitali (1896-1979). She referred to her father as a "profitable rubber planter in Malaya." Her parents returned to the British Isles just after their daughter's birth in London. Patricia decided she wanted to act after seeing MGM's The Broadway Melody (1929) at the age of ten. She was educated at schools in Folkestone, Kent, and the Institut Français in London. She studied acting at the Webber-Douglas Dramatic School. She also studied dance at the De Vos Ballet School.

Later life

Lisa Cohen, a writer-feminist Mercedes de Acosta, and British Vogue fashion editor Madge Garland were interviewed in London on March 21, 1998. Laffan had a tangential link to Garland, who was passionately involved with divorce counsel Frances (Fay) Blacket Gill, one of England's first female solicitors, had a vocation. Laffan is described as Gill's "last wife" and briefly addresses Gill and her close friendship with Garland. Matthew Sweet of the BBC 4 documentary Truly, Madly, Cheaply: British B Movies, 2008 – Laffan was interviewed by Matthew Sweet for the BBC 4 documentary Truly, Madly, Cheaply: British B Movies. She died at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London on March 10, 2014, just nine days before her 95th birthday. Multiple organ malfunction, cardiogenic shock, and myocardial infarction were all suspected, with secondary urinary sepsis consistent with acute kidney injury.

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Career

Laffan's first film appearance was in One Good Turn (1936). Jenny Diver was the Oxford Playhouse Repertory Company's first stage appearance in The Beggar's Opera (January 1937) at The Oxford Playhouse, and she performed it. In Surprise Item (25 February 1938) at the Ambassadors Theatre, she appeared for the first time in London. In Cross Beams (1940), her first credited film role may have been as a cast member. During World War II, she toured military bases throughout England, including appearances in Hay Fever and Twelfth Night. She appeared in six teleplays for the BBC between 1946 and 1947, in which she had extensive roles and was always credited. Her film appearances from this point forward were also more prominent and often praised. Magda Doon, a fashion model and unintended murder survivor of the short film Death in High Heels in 1947, she appeared alongside Don Stannard as Magda Doon, a short mystery film in High Heels. She appeared in Who Killed Van Loon?, a 1948 film starring Raymond Lovell. Rosa Warren, a glamorous film actress, appeared in Hangman's Wharf in 1950 as Rosa Warren, a female drama actress.

In the M-G-M Technicolor film Quo Vadis (1951), she played Poppaea, the Roman Emperor Nero's second wife (Peter Ustinov). After attending a screen-test she had done for a smaller role in the film, the producer and director of the epic blockbuster selected her for this leading role. This was her first film in color, and it was the longest, longest, most profitable, and most commercially profitable film in which she appeared. With costumes by Herschel McCoy, hairstyles by Sydney Guilaroff, jewelry by Joseff of Hollywood, and two pet cheetahs on golden leashes, she was the most beautiful-looking character on the film. Poppaea's career has earned a lot of praise over the years.

Irma Brooks appeared in Escape Route (1952), a crime drama starring George Raft. In the science fiction film Devil Girl from Mars (1954), which is now a cult classic, she appeared as the ruthless, PVC-clad alien Nyah. Miss Alice MacDonald, the female lead in the 20th century Fox's CinemaScope mystery thriller "23 Paces to Baker Street (1956), had a significant supporting role. She appeared on radio and television, including performances in Anna Karenina, The Aspern Papers, and Rembrandt's, as well as panel games such as Petticoat Line and Call My Bluff in the 1960s. In the late 1960s and 1970s, she produced and choreographed fashion shows around the world.

"The Life Story of Patricia Laffan" was included in the 10th issue of Picture Show magazine on July 10, 1954, which included the following facts: "The Life Story of Patricia Laffan" was included in the magazine's October 10th issue.

In Winter Pie - Miscellany for Men & Women (A Pie Pocket Special), published in October 1947, Laffan had a piece published. It was titled "Penicillin and Paris" and it was a breezy account of her "first weekend in Paris" under doctor's instructions to take vitamins and a holiday. She was "wined and dined on the right bank and on the left" and performed (and performed Night and Day with a large band) against Radiodiffusion Francaise. In the film The Rake's Progress, she appeared in the film, which then came to a conclusion in Paris.

On January 20, 1955, the Pittston Gazette published an article discussing Laffan's first visit to the United States for a mixture of work and holiday. She was scouting out panel and quiz shows (she appeared in several in England) to compare notes on American methods. "The air's so good here," she said. "Hollywood is discussing the esthetic similarity of British actress Patricia Laffan to Gertrude Lawrence, as well as Patricia's desire to play the Lawrence biography," the Daily Reporter wrote on Jan. 25.

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