Robert Hutton on Cinema SAM TAYLOR/NATIONAL THEATRE ● ...

A war of nerves

DEBORAH JANE TRIMMER was born on September 30, 1921, in Scotland. Her father had fought in WWI and lost his leg in the Battle of the Somme. Having anxiously awaited his return, her mother married him

IN the rear of her stationary motor-taxi, a young milliner reached up a careful gloved hand to pat her black-felt cloche, snug on her smart, fair curls. Constance Smart had been sitting patiently for

TWO choc ices and an orange Kia-Ora, please.” He didn’t need to tell me what he wanted. As soon as the house lights went up, and he appeared in the aisle, I was already reaching into the illuminated t

Towards the end of the 1960s, the actor Terence Stamp suddenly found work was drying up. “They are all looking for a young Terence Stamp,” his agent told him. Stamp was baffled. For one thing, he was