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Anne Heywood (born 11 December 1931) is a British retired film actress, who is best known for her Golden Globe-nominated performance in The Fox.[1]

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Anne Heywood
Heywood in The Chairman, 1969
Born	Violet Joan Pretty (1931-12-11) 11 December 1931 (age 90) Handsworth, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1951–1989
Spouse(s)	Raymond Stross ​ ​ (m. 1960; died 1988)​ George Danzig Druke ​ ​ (m. 1991)​
Children	Mark Stross (b. 1963)

Early life and career

Born as Violet Joan Pretty in 1931[2] to Harold and Edna E. (née Lowndes) Pretty in Handsworth, Birmingham, she won the Miss Great Britain title under her real name in 1950.[3]

In 1947, aged 15, she joined Highbury Little Theatre in Sutton Coldfield and then won a Birmingham University Carnival Queen competition. She then entered a National Bathing Beauty Contest and won. She had a small role in Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951).[4]

She made three TV appearances on the Carroll Levis TV Show and then spent four years touring UK theatres. Later she also attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She had a small part in the comedy Find the Lady (1956).[5]

Rank Organisation

Heywood was signed to the Rank Organisation, who changed her name to "Anne Heywood". They put her in small roles in Checkpoint (1956) and Doctor at Large (1957). The Danziger Brothers borrowed her for the lead in The Depraved (1957).

Rank gave Heywood the second female lead in Dangerous Exile (1957) and she was the female lead in Violent Playground (1958) with Stanley Baker, which established her as a film name.[6] She made Floods of Fear (1958) with Howard Keel. Herbert Wilcox used her as Frankie Vaughan's leading lady in The Heart of a Man (1959), then for Rank she starred in a romantic comedy Upstairs and Downstairs (1959). She was loaned to an Italian company to make the historical costume drama Carthage in Flames (1960).^{[citation needed]}

Raymond Stross

Heywood starred in the war movie A Terrible Beauty (1960) opposite Robert Mitchum. It was produced by Raymond Stross, who married Heywood. She starred in some British comedies, Petticoat Pirates (1961) and Stork Talk (1962) then did three thrillers produced by Stross: The Brain (1962), The Very Edge (1963), and 90 Degrees in the Shade (1965).

Heywood was making High Jungle for MGM with Eric Fleming but that film was cancelled when Fleming drowned.[7]

Heywood starred in a film adaptation of a D. H. Lawrence novel, The Fox (1967), produced by Stross. co-starring Sandy Dennis. It which caused controversy at the time due to its lesbian theme and nudity from Heywood.[8] It was also a huge hit. A newspaper referred to her and Stross as the "English Carlo Pontis."[9]

Heywood went to Italy to play a nun in The Lady of Monza (1969), playing The Nun of Monza, then did a movie with Richard Crenna produced by Stross, Midas Run (1969).[10][11] She was second billed in an espionage adventure film with Gregory Peck, The Chairman (1969) but was only on screen for five minutes.[12] She was mentioned as a possible star of Myra Breckinridge (1970), but did not appear in the final film.[13]

Later career

Heywood starred in I Want What I Want (1972), a box office and critical flop produced by Stross, then went to Italy for the giallo film The Killer Is on the Phone (1972) and The Nun and the Devil (1973), again as a nun. In Hollywood, she was the female lead in Trader Horn (1973), a failed remake of a 1931 classic film, then she returned to Italy for Love Under the Elms (1974).[14]

She starred in Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979), produced by Stross.[15] and in the Italian satanic horror Ring of Darkness (1979). Both films were failures. She then had supporting roles in Sadat (1981), and the science fiction film What Waits Below (1984). Her career declined in the 1980s. Her penultimate role was in a two-part episode of the popular United States television series The Equalizer, which starred British actor Edward Woodward, in 1988. She played Manon Brevard Marcel.

After the death of Stross in 1988, she retired from acting.[16]

Personal life

Heywood was married to producer Raymond Stross, who produced most of her films, including A Terrible Beauty, The Brain, The Very Edge, Ninety Degrees in the Shade, The Fox, Midas Run, I Want What I Want, and Good Luck Miss Wyckoff.

After Stross died in 1988, Heywood retired and has never appeared on screen since. In 1990, she married her second husband, George Danzig Druke, a former Assistant Attorney General of New York State, who died on 7 October 2021 in Beverly Hills, at the age of 98.[17] Heywood resides in Beverly Hills, California.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1951	Lady Godiva Rides Again	Dorothy Marlowe (beauty contestant)	(as Violet Pretty)
1956	Find the Lady	Receptionist
	Checkpoint	Gabriela
1957	The Depraved	Laura Wilton
	Doctor at Large	Emerald
	Dangerous Exile	Glynis
1958	Violent Playground	Catherine Murphy
1959	The Heart of a Man	Julie
	Floods of Fear	Elizabeth Matthews
	Upstairs and Downstairs	Kate
1960	Carthage in Flames	Fulvia
	A Terrible Beauty	Neeve Donnelly
1961	Petticoat Pirates	Chief Officer Anne Stevens
1962	Stork Talk	Lisa Vernon
	The Brain	Anna Holt
1963	The Very Edge	Tracey Lawrence
1965	Ninety Degrees in the Shade	Alena	Nominated — Golden Globe Nominee for Best English-Language Foreign Film
1967	The Fox	Ellen March	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1969	The Lady of Monza	Virginia de Leyva	Winner — Maschera D'Argento (Silver Mask) Award – Best Actress (Italy)
	Midas Run	Sylvia Giroux
	The Chairman	Kay Hanna
1972	The Killer Is on the Phone	Eleanor Loraine
	I Want What I Want	Roy/Wendy
1973	The Nun and the Devil	Mother Giulia
	Trader Horn	Nicole Mercer
1974	The First Time on the Grass	Margherita	Entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival
1979	Ring of Darkness [it]	Carlotta Rhodes	Also known as Satan's Wife
	Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff	Evelyn Wyckoff
1984	What Waits Below	Frieda Shelley

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Title of work	Result
1968	Golden Globe	Best Actress - Drama	The Fox	Nominated
1968	Laurel Award	Female Dramatic Performance	The Fox	5th place

Further reading

• Weedman, Christopher (January 2017). "Anne Heywood: Britain's Daring Beauty". Cinema Retro: 56–59.

References

External links

• Anne Heywood at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Anne Heywood

Anne Heywood (* 11. Dezember 1932[1] in Handsworth, heute zu Birmingham; gebürtig Violet Pretty) ist eine britische Schauspielerin.

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- [en] Anne Heywood

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[ru] Энн Хейвуд

Энн Хейвуд (англ. Anne Heywood, урождённая Вайолет Претти (англ. Violet Pretty), род. 11 декабря 1932 (1932-12-11)) — британская актриса. В 1950 году завоевали титул «Мисс Великобритания», а спустя год состоялся её актёрский дебют на большом экране. В начале 1950-х Хейвуд училась в Лондонской академии музыкального и драматического искусства. Первые крупные роли актриса исполнила в фильмах «Карфаген в огне» (1960), «Неотразимая красотка» (1960) и «Самый край» (1963). В 1967 году Хейвуд была номинирована на премию «Золотой глобус» за главную роль в драме «Лис», которая вызвала много споров из-за её лесбийской темы. В 1970-е годы у актрисы были роли в фильмах «Убийство по телефону» (1972), «Монахини из Сант-Арканджело» (1973) и «Удачи, мисс Вайкофф» (1979).

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