 Pamela Brown (born in London on 8 July 1917) made her debut as Juliet at Stratford-on-Avon in 1936, after gaining a gold medal from RADA. Her numerous appearances for the Old Vic, and Broadway triumphs (e.g., opposite John Gielgud in Wilde's The Importance of Being Ernest, 1947), were the more remarkable by reason of the debilitating arthritis which she suffered from the age of sixteen. While her work remained predominantly in the theatre, she also made notable screen appearances, commencing with the part of the Dutch school
mistress in Michael Powell's One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942). Her hauntingly enigmatic face, with the great golden eyes which Powell likened to those of a cat, ensured that she was noticed even in secondary roles such as Nicklaus in The Tales of Hoffman (d. Powell & Pressburger, 1951) and Jane Shore in Olivier's Richard III (1955). She and Powell became lovers, and were living together at the time of her death from cancer in 1975. She was married to Peter Copley. Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film
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