Pamela Brown

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Pamela Mary Brown (July 8, 1917 - September 18, 1975) was an English stage and film actress, born in Hampstead, London to George Edward Brown, a journalist, and his wife, Helen Blanche Ellerton. After attending RADA, she made her stage debut in 1936 as Juliet in a Stratford-upon-Avon production of Romeo and Juliet.<p>Three of her early film roles were in Powell &amp; Pressburger films: her first screen part in One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942), a memorable supporting role in I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), and in the fantasy film-ballet The Tales of Hoffmann (1951).<p>From the early 1950s illness was beginning to make playing on the stage difficult: owing to an arthritic condition, which began when she was aged only fifteen, her mobility was restricted and she was in great pain, kept at bay by drugs. Nevertheless, she was a notable success as Jennet in the London production of The Lady's Not For Burning, opposite Richard Burton and John Gielgud (1949), which transferred to Broadway for...