#Cybil city girl life movie#

The Burtons had settled in Hampstead, north London, and had their daughters, Kate, who became an actor, and Jessica. IВ will warm your heart by the fire so you can slip it under your vest when the shop isВ closed.' Griffith and Roberts also appeared alongside the Burtons in the famous 1954 BBC radio recording of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood Sybil played Myfanwy Price, dressmaker and sweetshop-keeper вЂ“ 'IВ will knit you a wallet of forget-me-not blue, for the money to be comfy. She appeared with Burton in the 1951 Stratford-upon-Avon season вЂ“ 'that wonderful summer,' she called it вЂ“ when he played his coruscating Prince Hal in Henry IV, Part 1 she was Lady Mortimer, speaking only in Welsh, in a company that also included Hugh Griffith, Rachel Roberts and Burton's great friend Robert Hardy.

Sybil made her one and only West End appearance, in Mary Chase's Harvey, the play about a man and his imaginary rabbit later filmed with James Stewart, at the Prince of Wales theatre in the same year. The couple became joyously inseparable вЂ“ they always called each other 'Boot' (as in the Welsh-accented 'beautiful') вЂ“ and married before the film was released.

#Cybil city girl life movie#

In her last term at Lamda, a teacher recommended her to the Welsh writer and director Emlyn Williams, who was filming The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949), which starred Edith Evans as aВ difficult woman refusing to leave her home in a flooded Welsh valley, and Burton, making his movie debut. She applied to drama schools in London and was accepted by both Rada and Lamda, but a mix-up in the post led to her not receiving the offer from the first school, so she took a scholarship to the second. There, she worked as a window dresser and participated in amateur theatre. Both were dead by the time she was 15 and she moved to Northampton in the Midlands to live with her married sister. Her father was a coalmine official, her mother sang in the chapel choir.

Williams came from a large family in Tylorstown, Glamorganshire. I look at the pictures, but I don't know that other guy. 'In retrospect,' she said in 1994, 'that is what I would like to preserve, that nice warm feeling I had on the boat. Petite, silvery-haired (she said she started to 'go white' at the age of 12) and vivacious, she relished the memoryВ of herself and Burton as two Welsh kids travelling first-class on the Queen Mary to New York. She turned her celebrity by association to good effect and became a nightclub owner and disco queen, marrying a rock singer 13 years her junior, and retiring only last year as artistic director of the Bay Street theatre in Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York, which she had co-founded in 1991.