Job Actress
Years active 1939-present
Top Roles Sharon McLonergan, Katherine Bridges, Peggy Sanford, Georgie Wilson, Nellie Cotterill
Top GenresComedy, Drama, Musical, Crime, Film Adaptation, Romance
Top TopicsRomance (Drama), Satire, Based on Play
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Shares birthday with Lewis Stone, Tilly Losch, Herbert Rawlinson  see more..

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Fan rating: 7.00
London Town

London Town

Fan rating: 7.00
Finian's Rainbow

Finian's Rainbow

Fan rating: 6.50

Petula Clark Overview:

Actress, Petula Clark, was born Petula Sally Olwen Clark on Nov 15, 1932 in Ewell, England. As of December 2023, Petula Clark was 91 years old.

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Petula Clark Quotes:

Finian McLonergan: What do you think makes America different from Ireland?
Sharon McLonergan: It has more Irishmen?

Woody Mahoney: How'd you get so pretty? And so rich?
Sharon McLonergan: Well, you see, in Glocca Morra, where we come from, there's an old legend, and it says: 'You'll never grow old and you'll never grow poor, if you look to the rainbow, beyond the next moor.'
Woody Mahoney: That's a lovely legend.
Sharon McLonergan: Aye.
Woody Mahoney: I wonder who thought it up.
Sharon McLonergan: My father: Finian McLonnergan.

Sharon McLonergan: I don't know who Rand is but I never trusted a McNally.

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Petula Clark Facts
In August 1981, she opened in "The Sound of Music" in London's West End with what was then the largest advance sale in British theatre history. What was originally intended to be a six-month run was extended to thirteen in order to accommodate public demand. During the week she took a break and her understudy played the role, the box office dropped a whopping 75%.
In 1962 had UK hit with "Chariot', the original version of "I Will Follow Him", a later hit for Peggy March.
In 1968 Clark and singer Harry Belafonte were singing a duet on her show when she touched Belafonte's arm. A representative for the show's sponsor, Chrysler Corp., saw it and ordered the director to have them re-tape the duet and not to have Clark touch his arm, the rationale being that viewers in the South would be outraged to see a white woman touching a black man, and the South was a big market for Chrysler's cars. Clark redid the scene, but when she found out the reason why, she and her husband - the show's producer - stormed into the control booth, ordered the director to destroy the second take and keep the original one. As expected, when the show was aired a few weeks later, many stations in the South wouldn't show it, and Chrysler received many letters from outraged Southerners saying they would never buy a Chrysler product again because of the company's sponsorship of the show.
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