1. – Mary Jerrold, Marry Me, 1949. Finally out of the war service with the film units of the RAF and the US Army Corps, future Alfie/007 director Lewis Gilbert wrote a script (with Denis Waldock) about the clients of a marriage bureau run by the Parsons sisters… the funny Hermiones, Gingold and Baddely. The script was bought, not his casting. The new sisters had no sparkle, “certainly no comic invention.” A year later, Gilbert got his own way and hired Baddeley for his seventh movie, There Is Another Sun – and she promplty invited her 23-years younger leading man, Laurence Harvey, to move in with her. He had more ambition than money, noted Gilbert, and “was learning how to put his good looks to use.”
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