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Flora: An Appreciation of the Life and Works of Dame Flora Robson Hardcover – January 1, 1981
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWm Collins & Sons & Co
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1981
- ISBN-100434047759
- ISBN-13978-0434047758
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- Publisher : Wm Collins & Sons & Co (January 1, 1981)
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 0434047759
- ISBN-13 : 978-0434047758
- Item Weight : 1.68 pounds
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I loved the book and Barrow’s unique access to Robson’s memories raises it high among similar movie star biographies. I never knew that she made her first radio appeal for charity to provide relief for the ordeal of the indigenous Skolt Lapps from northern Lapland. These herdsmen were starving in the wake of WWII for war had decimated their reindeer and they were too poor to buy more at any of the various reindeer markets of the great north. The Skolt Lapps, we learn, “spoke an ancient form of Tibetan and had probably the oldest unmixed ancestry of Europe.” What fascinated Robson was to hear of the Skolt people’s gifts of second sight. “Telepathy amongst them,” Barrow writes, “enabled one to make an appointment with another miles apart simple by dreaming a place and a time.” Singlehandedly, Robson raised five thousand pounds through the charity and this allowed all the tribespeople to acquire reindeer. For her charitable work, Flora received the Finnish Order of the White Lion and the White Rose (given to those who help their fellow humans). “When he presented her with the order the Finnish minister told her, ‘In Finland you are regarded as second only to God.’”
I found out that Flora Robson was the first guest ever on “What’s My Line” to think of disguising her voice to prevent the contestants from guessing her identity. After Flora, hundreds did it, but none before her. She made dozens of films, mostly crummy, but she always had a great quality. I saw her on TCM in a back to back showing first of “Holiday Camp” and then of “Great Day.” Neither of them the greatest movie ever made, but Robson shines in two very different parts. I also learned that her teacher, a British actress called Helen Haye (not the American Helen Hayes) made a success on Broadway late in life as a Romanov countess quizzing the claimant (Ingrid Bergman) in Bergman’s comeback stage vehicle Anastasia. American producers demanded that Bergman bring the story to the screen, and not realizing that Helen Haye was a different person, signed up Helen Hayes as well!