1. – Everley Gregg, Brief Encounter, 1945. Joyce was Noel Coward’s choice for what director David Lean termed “the woman who keeps talking and talking.” She had been ill, could not memorise lines and – worse – had camera fright. Coward agreed with Lean that she had to go.
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