WCW: Dorothy Tutin

Dame Dorothy Tutin (1930-2001) studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and started in theater in the late 1940s, later joining the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her first film role (in The Importance of Being Earnest) earned her a BAFTA nomination, and throughout her long career she moved between theater, film, and TV, earning award nods in each medium. Frock flickers may have first noticed her as Anne Boleyn, but she’s appeared in a fair number of costume dramas, so let’s review!

 

 

Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)

 

 

Polly Peachum in The Beggar’s Opera (1953)

 

 

Lucie Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1958)

 

 

Antigone in Antigone (1959)

 

 

Colombe in “Colombe,” BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960)

 

 

Varya in The Cherry Orchard (1962)

 

 

Marie in From Chekhov With Love (1968)

 

 

Anne Boleyn in The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970)

 

 

Mrs. Grange in “Flotsam and Jetsam,” W. Somerset Maugham (1970)

 

 

Queen Henrietta Maria in Cromwell (1970)

 

 

Sophie Brzeska in Savage Messiah (1972)

 

 

Sarah Burton in South Riding (1974)

 

 

Sister Dora (Dorothy Pattison) in Sister Dora (1977)

 

 

Lady Plyant in The Double Dealer (1980)

 

 

Margot Asquith in “The Asquiths,” Number 10 (1983)

 

 

Goneril in King Lear (1983)

 

 

Lady Minnie Nettleby in The Shooting Party (1985)

 

 

Lady Margaret of Gisburne in Robin of Sherwood (1986)

 

 

Kathleen Drover in “The Demon Lover,” Shades of Darkness (1986)

 

 

Mrs. Stamford in The Yellow Wallpaper (1989)

 

 

Annie Besant in “Benares, January 1910,” The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993)

 

 

Lady Fenton in Scarlett (1994)

 

 

Miss Gwendolyne Quim in Great Moments in Aviation (1994)

 

 

What’s your favorite frock flick role by Dorothy Tutin?