Sylvia Syms and the London Friends of Cork Film Festival at the Piccadilly Hotel
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Title
Sylvia Syms and the London Friends of Cork Film Festival at the Piccadilly Hotel
Subject
Cork Film Festival, Sylvia Syms, Dermot Breen, London Friends of Cork, Bernard McDonagh, Noel Harrington, Frank O'Leary, Anna Neagle, Beatrice Edney
Description
This is a black and white photo of the English actor Sylvia Syms at a drinks reception at the Piccadilly Hotel in London, organised by the London Friends of the festival. Syms, in a bright knee-length dress and cigarette in hand, is turned towards her companions, Bernard McDonagh and Noel Harrington, in conversation. The small group includes the festival director Dermot Breen on the left next to Frank O’Leary who was a member of the organising committee. The undated photo notes that the association of London friends was founded by Bernard McDonagh, a committee member of the London Film Society.
Born in 1934, Sylvia Syms has a prolific film and television career. Her second film My Teenage Daughter (Herbert Wilcox, 1956) also starred Anna Neagle who was a visitor to the festival when My Teenage Daughter opened at the Savoy in 1956. Her films include Brendan Behan’s The Quare Fellow (Arthur Dreifuss, 1962), The Tamarind Seed (Blake Edwards, 1974) with Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif, Absolute Beginners (Julien Temple, 1986) with David Bowie and Patsy Kensit, and as the Queen Mother in The Queen (Stephen Frears, 2006) with Helen Mirren. Her television work includes Thatcher: The Final Days (Granada Television, 1991) where she starred as Margaret Thatcher. Her daughter Beatrice Edney (1962-) is also an English actor with many film and television appearances including Highlander (1986, 2000), Inspector Morse (1989), Lewis (2013), and Poldark (2015-2019).
Born in 1934, Sylvia Syms has a prolific film and television career. Her second film My Teenage Daughter (Herbert Wilcox, 1956) also starred Anna Neagle who was a visitor to the festival when My Teenage Daughter opened at the Savoy in 1956. Her films include Brendan Behan’s The Quare Fellow (Arthur Dreifuss, 1962), The Tamarind Seed (Blake Edwards, 1974) with Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif, Absolute Beginners (Julien Temple, 1986) with David Bowie and Patsy Kensit, and as the Queen Mother in The Queen (Stephen Frears, 2006) with Helen Mirren. Her television work includes Thatcher: The Final Days (Granada Television, 1991) where she starred as Margaret Thatcher. Her daughter Beatrice Edney (1962-) is also an English actor with many film and television appearances including Highlander (1986, 2000), Inspector Morse (1989), Lewis (2013), and Poldark (2015-2019).
Creator
University College Cork, Cork Film Festival
Source
Cork Film Festival Collection
Publisher
University College Cork
Rights
This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Please credit the Cork International Film Festival Archive and provide a link back to the site.
Format
Photo
TIFF
JPEG
TIFF
JPEG
Language
English, eng
Coverage
London, England
Cork, Ireland
Cork, Ireland
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Photo
Physical Dimensions
212 x 163mm
Collection
Citation
University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, “Sylvia Syms and the London Friends of Cork Film Festival at the Piccadilly Hotel,” Cork International Film Festival Archive, accessed April 25, 2024, https://beatslab.ucc.ie/items/show/454.