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Dame Virginia Anne McKenna [1] (born 7 June 1931) is a British stage and screen actress, author, animal rights activist, and wildlife campaigner. She is best known for the films A Town Like Alice (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Born Free (1966), and Ring of Bright Water (1969), as well as her work with the Born Free Foundation.
The 91-year-old actress said she and her husband Bill Travers ‘shared a belief in the power’ of everyone to change society.
Travers briefly returned to Britain to make a comedy, The Smallest Show on Earth (1957), with his second wife Virginia McKenna, whom he had married in 1957. [14] Back in Hollywood, he was Eleanor Parker's character's love interest in The Seventh Sin (1957), a remake of a Greta Garbo film. [11]
In March 1958 it was announced the film would be made in Jamaica and at Pinewood Studios under the title of Passionate Summer starring Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers and Yvonne Mitchell. McKenna was coming off two large hits, A Town Like Alice and Carve Her Name with Pride. She and Bill Travers had married in real life in 1957.
Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring the real-life couple Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, another real-life couple, who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood and released her into the wilderness of Kenya.
After connecting during the COVID-19 pandemic, Tarlov and McKenna married in 2021 and welcomed their first child, Cleo Markie, shortly after. Three years later, the couple grew their family with ...
Mar. 28—A former Central Valley High school teacher's "predatory actions" stripped a student of his dreams and significantly harmed him and his family after the teacher had sex with the 17-year ...
Denholm Mitchell Elliott CBE (31 May 1922 – 6 October 1992) was an English actor. He appeared in numerous productions on stage and screen, receiving BAFTA awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Trading Places (1983), A Private Function (1984) and Defence of the Realm (1986), [a] and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Mr. Emerson in A ...