Joan Dowling Hue & Cry Historic Film Actress Hand Signed Photo

PFAS177 This is a rare opportunity to secure this antique 5.5" x 3.5" hand signed photo for Joan Dowling who has personally autographed the souvenir where her signature rests perfectly accompanying her portrait bar very light corner places (small and mild) this is in otherwise pristine condition and the autograph undedicated too. Surely the best early signed listing for this actress available anywhere.

Joan Dowling's major acting debut came when producer Anthony Hawtrey cast her in the role of Norma Bates in the Joan Temple play No Room at the Inn. The play's first performance was at the Embassy Theatre in July 1945. Subsequently, the play transferred under producer Robert Atkins to the Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane. She also played the same role in the 1948 film version, with the screenplay co-written by the famous Welsh author Dylan Thomas and Ivan Foxwell. She signed her first film contract at the age of 17 for Associated British Pictures. She was perhaps best known for her role as the tomboy Clarry in the 1947 Ealing Studios production Hue and Cry, a story set among the rubble and buildings of post-war London about a group of school children who discover that crooks have been sending coded messages about forthcoming jobs to their gang using the pages of a children's comic.In 1951 she married Harry Fowler, another actor from the cast of Hue and Cry.