11 thoughts on “WCW: Flora Robson

  1. Robson’s great as Ellen, the “Wuthering” narrator, although the role is underwritten for the screen. I like her characterful face.

  2. If this post did nothing else, it gave me a happy mental image of Dame Flora Robson, Dame Glenda Jackson, Bette Davis and Cate Blanchett getting to share a screen and scheme together.

    Real Life could not possibly support such a concentration of Awesome on a single screen, I fear.

  3. Also, if the pictures attached to this article are anything to go by, Hollywood was too stupid to know what it was using if it tried to pretend that Dame Flora Robson was anything but an extremely attractive woman.

    1. Oh, yes please to Margaret Tyzack! (Sorry to say I haven’t seen any of these with Flora Robson, but with such a distinguished career, maybe I should…)

  4. I guess if you are going to be typecast, you could do worse than being typecast as commanding nuns, queens, empresses and woman who make you cower in fear.

  5. My goodness, that’s a young Ian McKellen in that David Copperfield picture!

    Dame Flora was one of a generation of great theatrical Dames – Sybil Thorndyke, Edith Evans, Margaret Rutherford, Peggy Ashcroft… They dominated theatre and TV older ladies as Rigg, Smith, Dench, Jackson, Mirren et al have done in our time. Wonderful women and wonderful performers, all. They all made their names in straight theatre, which included a lot of frock roles, but is much more ephemeral than film.

  6. Obsessively watched Wuthering Heights at high school in the early 80s – loved her in that and I think I saw Fire Over England back in the day, although I can barely remember it – (may have had a massive crush on Laurence Olivier!)

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