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Subject: Actress Phyllis Calvert

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Date Posted: October 09, 2002 7:26:51 EDT

LONDON (AP) - Actress Phyllis Calvert, who won a loyal following in British films of the 1940s, has died at age 87.

Calvert, who appeared in 40 films over 70 years, died in her sleep at a hospital in London early Tuesday (Oct 8), her family said. No cause of death was given.

Some of her best known films, such as ``Fanny By Gaslight,'' ``Kipps,'' and ``The Man in Grey,'' were costume dramas made for Gainsborough Studios, which became famous for its historical romances.

Calvert became known as one of the ``Gainsborough Girls.''

The actress was born Phyllis Bickle in London on Feb. 18, 1915, and began her career as a dancer. After an injury, she switched to acting and made her stage debut at London's Lyric, Hammersmith theater, in November 1925, playing alongside the famous Victorian actress Ellen Terry, who was starring in her last production.

Calvert came out of retirement in 1997 to feature in the film adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel, ``Mrs. Dalloway.''

``With her tremulous lower lip and liquid brown eyes, she had such a graceful, sensitive and sympathetic way of working on the tear ducts that the success of (her movies) put her in the category of Greer Garson and Bette Davis at the box office,'' The Daily Telegraph said in its obituary on Wednesday.

In 1941, she married Peter Murray-Hill and had a son and a daughter. Her husband died in 1957.

There was no immediate announcement of funeral plans.

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The name is familiar, anybody know where a picture can be found? (NT)	Emmy	October 09, 2002 11:03:33 EDT
Re: Phyllis Calvert picture -- look inside, October 10, 2002 12:42:14 EDT