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(Patsy Sloots)
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| 29 August 29 |
is born in Norwood, London
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| Late 40s |
is a clerical trainee at the Ministry of Information, earning 5 pounds a week
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| 49 |
marries German-born actor Albert Lieven, the ex of actress Valerie White
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| ? |
her daughter is born
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| 8 February 51 |
attends the Daily Mail National Film Awards Ballot in London
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| 51 |
meets her future husband, New York-born Bonar William Sullivan, a.k.a. Bonar Colleano, while filming Pool of London at Ealing Studios
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| 54 |
divorces Lieven. He will later marry German actress Petra Peters.
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| 10 January 54 |
marries Colleano at the Paddington registry office in London. He's 30; she 24. "We decided to marry at lunch on Monday," Colleano says, "but yesterday was the only day we could both fix."
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| 4 March 55 |
her son, Mark, is born in England. He will become a child actor.
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| Early 58 |
she and Colleano are pictured attending a film premiere in London
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| 58 |
her husband Colleano becomes a target for the Inland Revenue as he takes her to Trinidad and buys a Jaguar for her and claims signing property over to his wife is a kind of informal insurance policy
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| 17 August 58 |
her husband Colleano dies at age 34 in a car crash at Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, while driving back to his hotel from Liverpool's New Shakespeare Theatre, where he was appearing in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Approximately a mile from the Mersey Tunnel, he ploughs through a corrugated iron fence and smashes into the two-foot levee behind it. A fellow actor, 40-year-old Michael Balfour, who is riding in the car, is taken to a hospital suffering from cuts and shock.
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hands the upbringing of their three-year-old son to his grandmother, Rubye Colleano
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to help her, a charity football match is held at Hayes Stadium in Middlesex with Tommy Yeardye, Stanley Baker, Alma Cogan, and Alfie Bass
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| 60s |
retires from the screen, tries office jobs and bar work
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starts battling a drinking problem, which will last till the end of her days
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| 68 |
frequently bumps into Diana Dors and her new man, Alan Lake, at some clubs in the heart of London
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| Mid-70s |
even the seedier clubs in London start banning her
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| 27 November 78 |
dies, age forty-nine, in Middlesex, England, from cirrhosis of the liver
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| ? |
is cremated at the Golders Green Crematorium, North London. Not one of her former co-stars or colleagues attends. Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison, who are both in poor health, send flowers.
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Sources:
Picture Show Who's Who on the Screen, Come by Sunday: The Fabulous, Ruined Life of Diana Dors by Damon Wise, The New York Times, Screen World, The Galveston News, Charleston Daily Mail, www.IMDb.com, Jim Simpson
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Recommended Books:
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Links:
Filmography
Susan Shaw Fan Club |
